Summary
Sam Felsenfeld is a seasoned web and product development professional with nine years of experience translating business needs into scalable technical solutions, primarily within IBM's marketing and lead-generation ecosystem. He combines hands-on PHP/Node.js development with product-facing responsibilities, having led API adoption, large-scale content migrations, and tooling that saved roughly $100K annually while eliminating security risks. Sam excels at bridging stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver timely, high-quality releases—examples include creating microsites for 50 products ahead of deadline and improving form conversion rates by ~30%. His background spans SaaS platforms, cloud object storage integrations, and building content-cataloging/crawling tools that improved content quality and search equity. Notably, he pairs early-career editorial and analytics experience with deep technical know-how, which helps him present technical trade-offs in business terms. Based in Greater Philadelphia and studying physicsy projects on GitHub, he brings both pragmatic engineering chops and a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mass Communications/Print Journalism, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mass Communications/Print Journalism at Kansas State University