Sam Bender
Software Engineer at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bender is a software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience blending product-focused iOS and UX work with startup leadership. He co-founded and served as CTO of Ventrk (TheraCentric), building the top home exercise program software, and now balances engineering at Meta with running Riker Tech as president. A University of Washington Informatics graduate, Sam’s background spans low-level camera APIs to full product ownership—from shipping OfferUp features to founding music-tech and health startups. He lives off-grid in a forest cabin (often smelling of wood stove smoke), kiteboards and plays piano, and brings that blend of hands-on craft, curiosity, and wilderness resilience to technically rigorous, user-centered product development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Infomatics Focus in Data Science, Infomatics Focus in Data Science at University of Washington
Stackoverflow
2,977reputation
727kreached
40answers
29questions
react-native
top-5%
typescript
top-5%
Github Skills (162)
postgresql10
python10
jsonb10
databases10
db210
nunjucks10
asgi10
sanic10
javascript10
python-web10
sql10
d110
database10
json10
sqlite10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rednebmas/SBMusicUtilities
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:24 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
rednebmas/binarySearchTree
Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
CSS502 HW2 binary search tree
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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