Sam Clark - Resume

Berlin, DE samrocksc at gmail dot com

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Summary

Dedicated to the fine arts of artisinal SQL, serverless, supply chain, and horrible hackery.

Professional Experience

Wunderflats

• Technical Team Lead | October 2023 - July 2025
  • Line Management for 5 direct reports and a team of 8 members in a cross functional team
  • Implemented features with team to increase company revenue considerably
  • Implemented payment automation systems to help improve the customer Experience
  • Worked in the capacity of a Product Manager to help roll out products on time

Enpal

• Senior Software Engineer | March 2023 - October 2023
  • Software Development & Architecture
  • Actively assist and promote RFC architecture ranging from trie data structure refactoring to Event-Driven Architecture implementation
  • Build/Implement REST architecture and create fallback pages for Global Expansion internationalization surveys
  • Node.js, C#, Azure Environment deployed with Terraform, and GitOps CI/CD using Azure Pipelines

Delivery Hero(Honest Food Company)(honestfoodcompany)

• Senior Software Developer | December 2019 - December 2022
  • Google Cloud/Terraform infrastructure
  • Management of scaling and processing for millions of pub/sub messages per hour.
  • Standard data reporting for SAP-based Qualtrics surveys for BI purposes
  • Integrating microservice architecture with other microservices.
  • Implemented several fundamental team working processes company wide
    • Team Working Agreements/Coding Standard Agreements
    • Team-wide Retrospectives
    • Cross-team tech talk program

Sightbox(sightbox)

• Software Engineer | October 2018 - December 2019
  • Managed the supply chain infrastructure for contact lense ordering and delivery
  • Node cluster application management for aggregation of products
  • AWS Heavy infrastructure and design with Cloudformation and SAM Templating
  • Servereless(.com) architecture and management implementation of lambda based API's
  • Stackery based updating of SAM templating files for infrastructure management

Synapse Studios(synapse studios)

• Developer | February 2018 - October 2018
  • Developed major node.js frontend application stacks
  • Fullstack development of Node.js applications, utilizing Hapi, React/Redux
  • Docker tooling and template maintenance

Iced Dev(iceddev)

• Developer | August 2015 - February 2018
  • Development of major node.js frontend application stacks
  • Fullstack development on 2 projects in a 6 month time frame, utilizing Hapi, React/Redux, Redis, Postgresql
  • Experience with Agile, Pivotal Tracker, and Github Issues models of development
  • Development and maintenance of several IoT(Internet of Things) projects. This includes both open source and closed
  • DevOps and Architecture Management

Nile Coffee LLC. - Owner

• Owner | December 2010- August 2015
  • Accounting, Bookkeeping, Reporting, Payroll/Employment, Tax, and Logistical Management
  • Designed/Built/Owned/Operated Lo Fi Coffee, 105 W. Main St, Mesa, AZ 85201(2011-2015)
  • Designed/Built/Owned/Operated Mud Dauber Coffee, 2222 N. 16th St, Phoenix AZ 85006(2012-2014)

Coffee & Tea Express

• Barista | August 2010-April 2011
  • Night shift coffee making
  • Implementation of Coffee Cart

United States Forest Service

• Firefighter II | January 2010-September 2010
  • Aggressively fought fires to suppress them as well as managed fires to suit the purposes of fires natural course while bypassing man made structures
  • Received multiple certifications for qualifications in the wildland firefighting industry
  • Hazmat: HAZWOPR

Paisley Violin LLC

• Manager/Barista | October 2008-April 2009
  • Worked as a Barista at three different locations and learned the ins and outs of cafe work and management
  • Worked as cafe manager at a satellite location in the YMCA. Interfacing with both the YMCA and the business to create new ideas to better give customers what they wanted

United States Marine Corps

• 0811 Cannoneer | October 2005-October 2009
  • Received Honorable Discharge on October 17th 2009 after four years of service
  • Two deployments, one on the 31st MEU/SOC to Okinawa, Japan and one Combat deployment to Iraq in Al-Anbar Province
  • Received Meritorious Masts on 4 different occasions
  • Extensive knowledge of GPS usage and Orienteering. Including: declination of compasses, map reading, map creation. as well as pioneering tools
  • Strict understanding of small unit leadership and how to maneuver a unit ranging of 7-15 people

Alltel Corporation

• Special Project Developer | August 2000-May 2005
  • Four years of web-design for Content Management Systems utilizing PHP/MySQL, Perl, Javascript
  • Responsible for integration of web solutions integral to the operation of the business
  • Interfacing with business analysts to create appropriate web solutions to track, find, fix issues across cellular networks
  • Terminal emulation scripting to assist employees in efficiently fixing issues across different variations of network switches

Volunteer Work

• Code Lab Mentor - Berlin Germany(2020)
• Heatsync Labs Hackerspace - Public tour(2011-2018)
• Coffee and Code - Founder/Organizer(2011 - Present)

Skillsets

• Postgres Database Management
• AWS DevOps, I have used about 75% of the product suite
• Docker Configuration and Cluster management
• Load Balancer Configuration & Management
• General API design(REST)
• Github Teamwork, Agile Development, Pivotal Tracker
• Databases of almost any SQL origin, levelDB, several flat file systems
• Javascript - Node.js, React, Flux Methodologies, JQuery, The DOM in general

Qualifications & Education

• Associates Degree, Social Work, 3.85 GPA, Phoenix College, Graduated December, 2012
• American Heart CPR