Sam Brauer is a Technical Lead Engineer based in Durham, NC with 15 years of professional experience and a dev career stretching back to the late 1990s. He specializes in backend systems and data processing, driving internal REST-ish APIs, stream processing with Kafka, and search/data store integrations (ElasticSearch, MySQL, Redis) at Rent. A long-time Clojure advocate, he transitioned teams from Ruby/Python to Clojure in production since 2016 and values simplicity and elegant solutions. His background includes building a custom CMS and accessible, standards-compliant front ends for large public sites at Duke Health, plus end-to-end web projects as an independent consultant. Comfortable with system design, load balancing and some ops, he blends hands-on coding with mentorship and architectural leadership. He brings a practical, product-focused mindset shaped by decades of integrating heterogeneous systems and making complex data workflows maintainable.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 5 years 8 months
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