Sam Gbafa
Founder at TinyCloud Labs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Gbafa is a founder and software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web, video streaming, and decentralized identity systems from prototype to production. He led identity and web3 product engineering at Spruce Systems and now runs TinyCloud Labs, bringing together interoperable decentralized architectures and ML research. His background spans founding startups (Lorable, Zippy), hands-on backend and streaming work at Wahoo Fitness, and model/tokenization research during a Scholar stint at OpenAI, reflecting both entrepreneurial grit and deep technical curiosity. Comfortable across stacks—Node.js, GraphQL, Python, and cryptographic identity tech—he pairs practical engineering with standards contributions and an interest in how tokenization choices shape model behavior. A less obvious strength is his pattern of repeatedly shipping end-to-end products (apps, servers, and infra) that bridge research ideas to user-facing services.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
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Github Skills (81)
identity10
browser10
firefox10
browser-extension10
opera10
brave10
plug10
chrome-extension10
metamask10
chrome10
ethereum10
blockchain10
dapp-developers10
emmet9
solidity9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spruceid/metamask-extension-siwe
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
:globe_with_meridians: :electric_plug: The MetaMask browser extension enables browsing Ethereum blockchain enabled websites
Contributions:1 review, 141 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
globebrowserethereumblockchainweb3
skgbafa/ssx
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
Self-Sovereign Anything
Contributions:8 PRs, 258 pushes, 59 branches in 9 months
sovereign
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