Sam Henderson
Founding Engineer at Forge
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Henderson is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 10 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack web products across startups in San Francisco. He has repeatedly led early-stage engineering efforts—designing roles & permissions, component libraries, and end-to-end features—in companies like Atrium, Hinge Health, Instacart, and currently Forge, where he focuses on delegating repetitive work to computers. Sam’s background spans React/Typescript, Rails, GraphQL, and production integrations (video, billing, messaging, maps), and he’s launched consumer-facing ventures including Chef’s Kiss and a VTuber streaming experiment, learning the hard economics of marketplace businesses. A physics and applied math graduate who completed intensive software training at Hack Reactor, he combines quantitative instincts with product empathy to ship pragmatic solutions. He tends to join small teams early and scope architecture and onboarding flows that scale as companies grow.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorHigher School Certificate 97.40, Higher School Certificate 97.40 at Barker CollegeThe University of Sydney
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Github Skills (100)
redux9
react9
browser-detection8
developer-tools8
google-maps8
docker-container8
zero-configuration8
create-react-app8
build-tools8
slick8
router8
link-preview8
jquery-plugin7
device-detection7
docker-compose7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shenders13/Small-Change
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:195 PRs, 218 pushes, 185 branches in 6 months
web-application
shenders13/senior-thesis
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 35 branches in 21 days
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