Sam Blackman
Affiliate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Blackman is a founder-led technology executive and inventor with 12+ years building product-led startups and platforms that apply ML and AI to real-world business problems. He co-founded and served as CTO of Nuvocargo, scaling AI-native freight and customs software into a market-leading North American platform backed by top-tier investors, and now advises and continues to launch ventures across the US and Aotearoa. His background spans shipping logistics, regulatory automation (Ascent), and consumer-facing property tech (Common), complemented by hands-on engineering teaching at Dev Bootcamp where he trained 500+ full‑stack engineers. Unusually for a technologist, he pairs a deep technical practice—20+ years coding across Python, Ruby and JavaScript—with formal legal training (LLB Hons, LLM) and recent scholarship at Harvard, enabling him to translate complex regulatory and product constraints into scalable software.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Laws - LLM (on exchange), Master of Laws - LLM (on exchange) at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenBachelor of Arts - BA, Logic and Computation/Symbolic Systems, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Logic and Computation/Symbolic Systems, Philosophy at University of AucklandMaster of Laws - LLM, Master of Laws - LLM at Harvard Law SchoolRotorua Boys’ High School
Github Skills (23)
tower7
browser6
maxis5
json-schema5
javascript4
json4
ajv4
react3
schema3
ruby2
rails2
searchable2
probot2
test-kitchen2
coercion2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tsamb/ghcal-updater
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 2 months
tsamb/honest_lawyers
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 2 days
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