Sam Alexander
Staff Engineer at Knapsack
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSam Alexander is a product-focused staff engineer and entrepreneurial technologist based in Portland with 14+ years building resilient, user-first systems and teams across startups and enterprise clients like Nike and Intel. He specializes in data pipelines, AI infrastructure, and rapid product engineering—rebuilding teams and platforms that turn technical debt into measurable growth (e.g., 109% customer growth at Mental Health Match and 5x user growth for AmptUp). A proven builder in music and creative tech, he led development of Track Club and co-created the patented MixLab™ browser-based music customization now used by TikTok. Sam blends hands-on engineering with strategic CTO-level judgment, routinely assembling distributed teams to rescue, launch, or scale products that reach millions. He’s as comfortable designing “systems of systems” at Knapsack as he is translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear product outcomes for non-technical stakeholders. An artist and entrepreneur at heart, he brings a maker’s curiosity to product strategy and practical infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Composition Sound Design & Music Business, Composition Sound Design & Music Business at Berklee College of MusicBS Management Science and Information Systems, BS Management Science and Information Systems at Oklahoma State UniversityManagement Information Systems, Management Information Systems at Oral Roberts University
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Github Skills (153)
feature-flags10
mootools10
scrollspy10
session-replay9
javascript9
jquery9
recording9
posthog9
testing9
python9
data-warehouse9
web-analytics9
mfcc9
ab-testing9
extraction9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sxalexander/jquery-scrollspy
Oct 2011 - Apr 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 years 6 months
javascriptscrollspyjquerymootools
MarmosetMusic/laptop
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
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