Summary
Sam Currie is a founder and technology leader with a decade of experience building platform infrastructure and product-focused engineering teams, now serving as CEO of Heyo Computer, which creates portable, customizable sandbox VMs for agentic workflows. Previously he led Platform Ops Engineering at Flatfile, owning infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD and platform architecture to improve data onboarding at scale. His background blends applied building science and energy modeling with software engineering—from research roles and energy consultancy to VP of Engineering at simuwatt—giving him a rare cross-domain fluency in systems engineering and real-world measurement. He’s pragmatic about shipping reliable platforms that bridge developer experience and operational resilience. Based in Denver, he combines startup leadership with hands-on technical depth and a proven track record of turning complex physical-data problems into usable software. An engineer by training (M.S. Civil Engineering, Purdue), he often applies rigorous, model-driven thinking to infrastructure and product decisions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Civil Engineering, Masters of Science, Civil Engineering at Purdue University