Sam Christensen
Senior Software Engineer at Scotch
Acworth, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Christensen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, high-performance APIs and modernizing complex backends. He has repeatedly led architecture and developer-experience initiatives—founding backend and DX guilds that drove major reductions in deploy and build times and took test coverage from zero to 80% across large codebases. Sam excels at practical modernization: upgrading large legacy services, designing mobile-friendly APIs that integrate with monoliths, and automating test environments to accelerate delivery. Based in Acworth, Georgia, he combines hands-on engineering with organizational impact, often delivering projects ahead of schedule while reducing technical debt. An understated strength is his knack for measurable operational wins (deploy times, build times, response times) that directly improve developer productivity and product reliability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Utah State UniversityAssociate's Degree, General Studies, Associate's Degree, General Studies at Snow College
Github Skills (34)
django-rest10
simplify9
rest-framework9
rest7
django-rest-framework7
django7
rest-api7
macos6
windows6
linux6
wallpaper6
python6
javascript6
editor5
electron5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samachr/solid-journey
Aug 2016 - May 2020
An in-browser rewrite of a music theory game. https://github.com/samachr/Pitch
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
reactbrowserjavascriptgame-theorytheory
samachr/samachr.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
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