Summary
Sam Clearman is a software engineer with a PhD in mathematics and a decade of experience building data-driven, full-stack systems in the Bay Area. He’s an early Scale AI engineer and former engineering manager who led the Marketplace team responsible for payments, task assignment, and incentives, and has shipped analytics work at Google improving Android battery life across billions of devices. Comfortable in startup and high-scale environments, he’s currently building at a stealth company and recently joined Titan to tackle new engineering challenges. Sam blends deep quantitative training with practical production experience, often bridging research-level thinking and product-focused execution. An intellectually curious problem-solver, he seeks interesting, high-impact problems that reward technical rigor and creative systems design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at Haverford College
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at Lehigh University