Sam Dooman
Founding Engineer at B* Fellowship
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Dooman is a founding engineer with a decade of experience building high-impact consumer health apps, currently helping scale Down Dog to the #1 yoga app in stores. He blends backend engineering and data science with a research-minded focus on measuring fitness and mindfulness interventions, and actively partners with scientists who want to run studies using Down Dog. A Brown-educated computer scientist and musician, Sam contributes to open-source language tooling—adding statistical primitives and a StatModel for linear regression to the Pyret language—demonstrating comfort shipping math-heavy features into production languages. Based in New York, he mentors Brown students through the B* Fellowship, translating product experience into practical guidance for early builders. Known for pragmatic curiosity, he pairs rigorous data skills with product instincts to turn experimental ideas into reliable, test-covered systems.
10 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Music, Computer Science, Music at Brown University
English
Stackoverflow
60reputation
5kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (15)
statistics10
unit-test10
pyret10
linear-regression10
lang9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
ed255198
audio-streaming6
ios6
swift6
ffmpeg6
aac6
fastlane6
ruby6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brownplt/pyret-lang
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
The Pyret language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:17 commits, 15 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam implemented new statistical functions and incorporated them into the Pyret language's standard library, focusing on calculations such as mean, median, standard deviation, and linear regression. Their work included the creation of a `StatModel` data type for linear regression, complete with methods for prediction and R-squared calculation. These contributions involved modifying existing list utilities and creating new tests to validate the functionality of the newly introduced statistical tools and the integration with the Pyret language.
compilerpyretprogramming-language
SDooman/bootstrap-data-1
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:79 commits, 41 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
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