Summary
Sam Crowder is a product-focused technology leader with eight years of experience delivering scalable software at the intersection of engineering and business. Currently a Product Manager at LangChain, he leads the LangGraph Platform, translating deep technical insight into product outcomes for developers and operators. Previously, he served as an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, evaluating and supporting technical software companies from seed through Series C. Earlier at Rockset, he built data ingestion pipelines powering 20TB-scale workloads and shipped the Virtual Instance feature enabling API-based compute up to 512 vCPUs, plus partnerships with dbt Labs and Airbyte. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MEng in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard, with a CS degree and Business Strategy minor from BYU, and is based in San Francisco. He blends entrepreneurial insight with hands-on technical depth to turn complex infrastructure challenges into enduring business value.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, Los Angeles