Sam Goldman
Co-Founder & CEO at Smartbase
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSam Goldman is a founder-engineer who blends product-led leadership with hands-on blockchain and DevOps experience across early-stage startups. Based in the Bay Area, he co-founded Sphinx (a DevOps platform that raised $2M) and now leads Smartbase, an YC-backed company automating order entry for manufacturers. As the first engineering hire at Quix he wrote smart contracts on Optimism that processed millions in marketplace sales, and he’s contributed core NFT bridge logic to the widely used Optimism Ethereum scaling project. Comfortable moving between infrastructure, smart contracts, and CEO responsibilities, Sam scales teams and systems while still shipping low-level contract and backend code. He studied data science at UC Berkeley and sharpened his startup playbook through Z Fellows and Y Combinator, combining technical depth with rapid operational execution. An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex blockchain mechanics into reliable, production-ready product features that customers can adopt.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Major, Data Science, Major, Data Science at University of California, BerkeleyS25, S25 at Y CombinatorZ Fellows
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Github Skills (14)
autoscaling10
smart-contracts10
scale10
solidity10
opt10
ethereum10
erc72110
blockchain10
optim10
scaling10
ovp9
ovirt9
rollupjs9
ovf9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum-optimism/optimism
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Optimism is Ethereum, scaled.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 11 commits, 33 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on developing and refining the NFT bridge functionality within the Optimism Ethereum scaling solution. Their contributions involved implementing core bridge features, adding event tests to ensure functionality, and addressing issues related to the bridge's proxy logic. They also made significant code changes by adding view keywords to functions and improving the documentation and handling of token transfers. This work involved the user in the core contract logic of bridging NFTs.
rollupl2-scalingovmethereumblockchain
smartcontracts/chugsplash
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:787 commits in 6 months
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