Sam Bonfante
Engineering Manager at Tech Valley Center of Gravity
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bonfante is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling front-end and full-stack teams, currently driving platform engineering at Worldpay for Platforms from the New York City area. He has a track record of accelerating team velocity and shepherding technology transitions—most recently leading company-wide frontend modernizations and cloud/identity work across SaaS products. His background spans embedded C++ and systems-level work through to React/TypeScript, Node.js, and CI/CD, giving him a broad technical lens for infrastructure and product decisions. Beyond day-to-day management he serves on nonprofit and industry boards, applying hands-on technical judgment to support member-driven organizations and developer communities. An early robotics educator and RPI computer science alumnus, he brings a pragmatic teaching mindset to mentorship and career development for engineers.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hudson Valley Community CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (135)
eeprom10
robotics10
ntp10
atmega10
science10
biology10
arduino-uno10
pyqt10
protocols10
sd-card10
shield10
nimble10
civicrm9
tac9
react-component9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
X-sam/GithubBuildStatus
Jul 2016 - Oct 2020
Simple app for using the github status API to load a badge.
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 2 months
apireactapi-statusstatusnodejs
Sam-son/Ev3-CPP
Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
C++ Library for interacting with LEGO Mindstorms Ev3 robotics platform
Contributions:7 releases, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 3 months
roboticscpplego-mindstorms-ev3mindstormsc-library
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