Summary
Sam Epstein is a Creative Technologist based in New York with 15 years of experience building standards-compliant web applications and services across startups, agencies, and freelance projects. He blends backend expertise in Django/DRF and Node with front-end SPAs, having led greenfield products, investor-ready MVPs, and production interactive features for clients like the NY Times. Comfortable as an "effective CTO," Sam mentors engineers while shipping full-stack systems, admin tooling, and complex matching and templating engines. His hands-on hardware and mixed-reality work—debugging a 12-foot fabric printer, microsoldering custom PCBs, and optimizing WebXR for art installations—adds an uncommon physical-computing edge to his web-first practice. As a long-time freelancer and former co-founder, he pairs entrepreneurial pragmatism with a track record of moving projects from prototype to funded product.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer