Sam Gilbert
Director Of Supply Chain Commercialization Demand Planning
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gilbert is a seasoned operations leader and founder with 17+ years of experience guiding early- and mid-stage startups, currently directing supply chain commercialization and demand planning at ZBiotics to keep products in stock and launches on track. He also chairs Temescal Brewing, reflecting entrepreneurial drive and a talent for building mission-driven teams and communities. Alongside leadership, he brings a hands-on software engineering background with Rails-focused experience at Nitidbit, Learnist, BrewLab SF, and The Barbarian Group, delivering scalable web solutions and robust authentication and test coverage. Notably, his GitHub work on iNaturalist added sound integration features, multimedia capabilities, and audio data modeling, showcasing practical backend development and feature delivery. A Harvard BA in Social Sciences anchors his broad systems view, and he now seeks to apply cross-disciplinary expertise to climate, sustainability, and biomanufacturing innovations in dynamic environments.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Social Sciences, Bachelor's Degree, Social Sciences at Harvard UniversityHigh School, High School at Oak Park and River Forest High School
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
activerecord10
rails10
postgresql10
database-design10
ruby-on-rails10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
inaturalist/inaturalist
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to adding features related to sound integration within the iNaturalist application. They added database tables and models for sounds, including associations with observations and user preferences for licensing. Further contributions included setting up SoundCloud provider authorization and identity management, with asynchronous storage of SoundCloud embed HTML, significantly enhancing the platform's multimedia capabilities. These changes indicate a focus on expanding the observation features with audio data.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsinaturalistruby
sam1vp/new-normal
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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