Sam Goldstein
Chief Technology Officer at Sema
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSam Goldstein is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO in Portland, Oregon with 17 years of experience building high-output engineering organizations and scalable cloud-native products. He scaled GitLab’s CI/CD teams from ~50 to 100+ engineers and drove $300M+ in ARR growth while architecting reusable cloud integration frameworks and secure AI integration platforms showcased at Google Next and AWS re:Invent. Previously he led infrastructure and agent teams at New Relic, building petabyte-scale storage, low-latency streaming, and browser monitoring systems, and has deep hands-on experience across Ruby, Kubernetes, ClickHouse, Kafka, and distributed databases. Sam combines strategic business impact with pragmatic engineering—reducing delivery times by 60% for partnerships and improving CI performance threefold through targeted optimizations. He is an active open-source contributor to Ruby tooling (including the timetrap CLI and work on the New Relic Ruby agent), reflecting a continued appetite for hands-on problem solving. Trained in rhetoric at UC Berkeley, he brings clear communication and product-minded leadership to complex technical programs.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Rhetoric, Bachelor's Degree, Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
cli10
command-line-interface10
rspec10
agent10
apm-agent10
command-line10
ruby10
test-automation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samg/timetrap
Mar 2009 - Mar 2020
Simple command line timetracker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:305 commits, 26 PRs, 39 pushes in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam implemented the core command-line interface (CLI) interpreter for the timetrap time tracking application, including the `alter`, `switch`, `week`, and `archive` commands. They also added the basic display features and built out formatters for CSV and iCalendar files. The user refactored tests, implemented the resume feature, and added the --yes option for automation, and support for numeric sheet names.
command-line-toolcommand-linetimetrackercli
newrelic/newrelic-ruby-agent
Oct 2011 - Dec 2013
New Relic RPM Ruby Agent
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the Ruby agent's backend functionality, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to core components. Their work involved resolving an instantiation issue within the metric parser, reverting a configuration format change, and merging updates from a development branch. The user also addressed issues with browser monitoring and ActiveMerchant integration.
agentrpmapm-agentrubyruby-agent
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