Sam Beck
Senior Systems Communication Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Beck is a Senior Systems Communication Engineer in Portland with nine years building hardware-integrated software for energy storage and power systems. He moves fluidly between field commissioning, SoC algorithm design, and market optimization platforms—having commissioned >100 MWh of BESS globally and later architected Powin’s autonomous market-facing software. Equally comfortable in Python, Java, and ML for high-dimensional time-series, he focuses on making complex battery and energy-market behavior explainable to technical and non-technical stakeholders. A hardware startup enthusiast and former founder, he’s shipped consumer and industrial electronics end-to-end, from SMT PCBAs to production logistics. Sam pairs an arts-and-math undergraduate background with an MS in Computer Science, which helps him blend creative problem framing with rigorous systems thinking. Colleagues rely on him to find root causes others miss and to translate messy real-world hardware constraints into robust software products.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts - BA, Visual art, math minor, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual art, math minor at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish
Github Skills (23)
python10
data-science10
pandas10
manipulation10
data-structures10
frame10
data-analysis10
data-manipulation9
dataframes9
databases7
database7
sql6
sqlite6
azure-functions4
sift4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
notsambeck/sift2
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
SIFT generates and identifies meaningful images
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 years
imagegenerationsiftcomputer-visioncode-generator
notsambeck/pandabase
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
pandabase links DataFrames to SQL databases using primary keys.
Contributions:3 releases, 150 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
dataframessqlkeysdatabasessqlite
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