Sam Gottfried
Senior Full Stack Software Developer at Ford Motor Company
Buffalo-Niagara Falls Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gottfried is a Senior Full Stack Software Developer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently applying his craft at Ford Motor Company. He blends pragmatic XP and TDD practices with hands-on work across Ruby/Rails, Node.js, React, Scala, Java, and mobile platforms (iOS/Android), and has led migrations from legacy Rails/Backbone stacks to modern Node/React architectures. Sam has a track record of delivering customer-facing features like storefront galleries and search experiences, while also coaching teams in pair programming, TDD, and continuous improvement. Comfortable in both product and client-facing consulting roles, he taught full-stack curricula at General Assembly and led API and chat projects for startups and enterprise clients. Colleagues benefit from his focus on software design and process facilitation, and he brings an engineer’s curiosity for small, testable improvements that compound into more reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Software Engineering, B.S, Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
ruby9
mvc9
rails9
html9
activerecord8
ruby-on-rails8
vim7
todomvc6
ava6
nyc6
peach6
testing6
react5
chai5
api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sgottfried/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:158 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
sgottfried/videogames_db
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year
apigiantbombvideogamesdatabasegiantbomb-api
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