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Sam Clark - Resume
Berlin, DE
samrocksc at gmail dot com
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Summary
Dedicated to the fine arts of artisanal SQL, serverless, supply chain, and horrible hackery. I have pushed production code, and written infrastructure as code with all three major cloud distributors. I am a versatile developer who knows how to not just create applications, but engineer them.
Professional Experience
Distology Studios
- Senior Engineer | January 2026 - present
- Software Development & Architecture
- Actively assist and promote ADR & RFC driven architecture
- Implementing CIAM and Identity Management Systems
Wunderflats
- Technical Team Lead | October 2023 - August 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 - August 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.de)
- 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.com)
- 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
- Serverless(.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.com)
- 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
- Modern JS Stack - Node.js, TypeScript, React, jQuery
- Go
- Python
Qualifications & Education
- Associates Degree, Social Work, 3.85 GPA, Phoenix College, Graduated December, 2012
- American Heart CPR
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