Summary
Sam Brown is a pragmatic engineering leader and two-time co-founder with 14 years of experience building and operating full-stack, data-driven platforms from Seattle. As CTO at Wellput and previously at Traverse Data, he designs scalable, highly available AWS architectures, leads engineering teams, and directly partners with sales and clients to drive integrations and product success. He has a track record of cutting cloud costs nearly in half while improving stability and throughput, and hands-on expertise across Python/Django, PHP, JavaScript, and ops tooling. Comfortable switching between code, architecture, and customer-facing technical leadership, he also brings an educator’s clarity from years teaching intro Python—useful for mentoring teams and translating complex requirements into practical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at University of Vermont
St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Dover, NH