Summary
Sam Hamm is a web developer and tech educator with 11 years of professional experience and a background as a tenured music professor, blending rigorous academic discipline with modern web engineering. He has shipped and maintained high-visibility sites at Microsoft, specializing in reusable UI components, performance, accessibility, and technical SEO, and has also designed curriculum and apprenticeship programs for talent development. As a teacher and lead instructor he’s delivered hundreds of courses and mentored cohorts, and he pairs that pedagogical skill with hands-on tooling—authoring a custom Chrome extension to automate site testing during a university migration. Based in Seattle, Sam brings a rare mix of curriculum design, developer mentorship, and production web operations that helps teams scale both codebases and people.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BM Music Composition, BM Music Composition at The University of Alabama
Certificate in Full-Stack JavaScript Development JavaScript and UI/UX, Certificate in Full-Stack JavaScript Development JavaScript and UI/UX at Code Fellows
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Music Composition, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Music Composition at University of Florida