Summary
Sam Fader is a climate-focused solutions engineer with 11 years of experience applying geospatial and integration expertise to product-facing roles from startups to scale-ups. Based in Portland, he has worked as a technical customer advocate and integrator across Mapbox and Radar—helping strategic accounts adopt SDKs, APIs, and geofencing—and now brings that domain experience to climate work at Watershed. He’s equally comfortable managing complex integrations, advocating customer priorities to product teams, and troubleshooting production issues, a skillset honed through repeated TAM and support roles. Sam’s background in computer science and sociology, plus a semester abroad in humanities, gives him a pragmatic multidisciplinary perspective that helps bridge technical, operational, and stakeholder needs.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Double BA, Computer Science, Sociology, Double BA, Computer Science, Sociology at Eckerd College
Semester Abroad, History/Music/Philosophy, Semester Abroad, History/Music/Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington