Sam Gilbert
Director Of Supply Chain Commercialization & Demand Planning
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gilbert is an operations leader and founder with 15+ years scaling early- and mid-stage ventures, currently directing supply chain commercialization and demand planning at a biotech startup in San Francisco. He built Temescal Brewing from the ground up into a Bay Area institution, blending team-building, operational rigor, and mission-driven culture to sustain rapid growth and loyal customers. Sam pairs hands-on startup generalist experience with systems thinking—bridging product, manufacturing partners, and cross-functional teams to turn scientific ideas into reliable products. With a software background contributing audio features to the widely used iNaturalist Rails app, he brings technical fluency that helps him automate and optimize complex operations. Now focused on climate, sustainability, and biomanufacturing, he seeks roles where his mix of operational grit, technical chops, and founder mindset can accelerate impact.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Social Sciences, Bachelor's Degree Social Sciences at Harvard UniversityHigh School, High School at Oak Park and River Forest High School
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
activerecord10
rails10
postgresql10
database-design10
ruby-on-rails10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
inaturalist/inaturalist
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
The Rails app behind iNaturalist.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to adding features related to sound integration within the iNaturalist application. They added database tables and models for sounds, including associations with observations and user preferences for licensing. Further contributions included setting up SoundCloud provider authorization and identity management, with asynchronous storage of SoundCloud embed HTML, significantly enhancing the platform's multimedia capabilities. These changes indicate a focus on expanding the observation features with audio data.
rails-app
sam1vp/sitechecker-status
Apr 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:1781 pushes in 14 days
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