Sam Briesemeister
Engineering Leader at Stealth Startup
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSam Briesemeister is an engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, particularly around Kubernetes, CI/CD, and bare-metal to cloud transitions. He has led large, cross-functional programs at AWS—where he cut release lag from 10 months to six weeks for upstream Kubernetes—and now drives AI infrastructure at a stealth startup. Sam pairs hands-on coding in Python, JavaScript and Go with product-focused leadership that accelerates time-to-market and improves organizational agility. His background in analytics, consulting, and entrepreneurship gives him a systems-level view of how engineering, business processes, and customer-centric innovation create value. He’s equally invested in coaching teams, teaching practical skills, and shipping reliable production features quickly and safely. Currently exploring large-scale graph modeling problems in side projects, he brings both deep infrastructure expertise and a curiosity for novel architectures.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Information Systems at University of Idaho
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samba/samba.github.io
Mar 2015 - Oct 2023
GitHub user page
Contributions:2 PRs, 152 pushes, 14 branches in 8 years 8 months
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samba/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Mar 2025
the way I work
Contributions:2 PRs, 151 pushes, 14 branches in 9 years 9 months
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