Sam Birk
Senior Vice President Of Engineering at Housecall Pro
Derwood, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Birk is a senior engineering executive with 11 years of hands-on software experience and a Ph.D. in Management and Organizations, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Housecall Pro. He has progressed through multiple leadership roles there—shaping fintech, internal tooling, and now company-wide engineering strategy—after earlier technical posts at AWS, ID.me, and several education-focused startups. Skilled in Ruby, React, and AWS, Sam blends deep technical fluency with research-backed people and organizational management practices. He pairs public-speaking and instructional experience (Flatiron School, university courses) with a track record of scaling teams and shipping reliable cloud services. Based in Derwood, Maryland, he brings an unusual mix of academic rigor and product-driven engineering leadership that helps bridge strategy, HR, and hands-on execution.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaB.S. Psychology, B.S. Psychology at University of MarylandNo degree Political Science and Government, No degree Political Science and Government at US Coast Guard Academy
Github Skills (55)
javascript9
ios9
ionic9
typescript9
twitter-typeahead9
vue9
react9
angular9
frontend9
capacitor8
scalable8
mobile-web8
material-design8
android8
stencil-components8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samuelbirk/learn-co-sandbox
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:383 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
samuelbirk/CSS-Flexbox-Code-Along-qa-internal
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:86 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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