Ken Samson
Senior Software Developer at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKen Samson is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of focused experience and a long history of delivering healthcare and enterprise applications, currently building in-house systems for physicians and administrators at the University of Chicago. He combines hands-on .NET, C#, and SQL expertise with pragmatic team leadership, consistently shipping user-centered products on time and within budget. Comfortable liaising between stakeholders, Ken translates business goals into clear technical requirements and actionable instructions that drive adoption and operational efficiency. His career traces back to product and workflow systems at FreeWheel/Strata and entrepreneurial IT consulting, showing a blend of large-team coordination and small-team agility. Based in Chicago, he pairs a Master’s in Information Systems Management with a knack for simplifying complex clinical and administrative workflows into reliable software.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Sayre SchoolMaster's Degree Information Systems Management, Master's Degree Information Systems Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry UniversityBSCS Computer Science, BSCS Computer Science at University of South Carolina
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Github Skills (38)
displays10
chips10
nextjs9
browser9
i2c9
react9
compiler8
wrapper8
hardware8
iot-framework8
javascript8
hybrid8
static-site-generator7
net-library7
csharp7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kenssamson/Assistants-Pi
Nov 2020 - Jul 2024
Headless Google Assistant and Alexa on Raspberry Pi
Contributions:20 PRs, 25 pushes, 22 branches in 3 years 8 months
alexa-skills-kitraspberry-piassistantiftttraspberry
kenssamson/rpi-ws281x-csharp
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
:strawberry: C# / .NET library wrapper for the rpi-ws281x library
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
net-librarydotnetrpistrawberrywrapper-library
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