Michael Sampson
Staff Software Engineer at LiftingCast
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sampson is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of focused experience building and scaling production software across startups and enterprise teams in the Greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area. He has progressed from senior engineering roles into leadership and staff-level positions at companies like TrueCar and byte®, and now drives platform work at Roofstock while also running his own venture, LiftingCast. Comfortable across the stack, he brings a track record of mentoring teams, directing development efforts, and delivering reliable systems under product timelines. His background includes long-tenured engineering at PTC and Code42 and a Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota, giving him deep institutional knowledge of software lifecycle and architecture. Notably, he balances hands-on coding with entrepreneurial instincts—maintaining an ongoing side business since 2014 that informs pragmatic product and user-focused decisions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (59)
range-picker10
expressions9
lighthouse9
checkout9
csv-parser9
react-component9
stripe-payments9
css9
audit9
performance-analysis9
nodejs9
google-pay9
chrome9
stripe-api9
auditing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ieundhdyjfawbb/liftingcast
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 PRs, 59 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
travismeyer/waterme
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 39 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
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