Summary
Sam Barrientos is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-throughput web applications across startups and established teams. Currently at HashiCorp, he brings deep Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/React, and backend expertise honed while architecting a dynamic emailing system and owning RabbitMQ and monitoring at Adwerx. He excels at rapid context-switching and firefighting critical production issues, often stepping into SME roles to drive large integrations and system overhauls. As an early hire at Upright Labs he tackled data integrity and concurrency challenges at scale, and at Weedmaps and FightMetric he delivered fast-moving backend features while mentoring teammates. Beyond coding, Sam fosters engineering culture—leading book clubs, pair programming, and social hangouts—to improve team cohesion and knowledge sharing. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for scalable architecture and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby On Rails Web Developement, Ruby On Rails Web Developement at General Assembly
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northern Virginia Community College
Computer Science, Computer Science at George Mason University
High School, High School at Langley High School
German, Spanish