Summary
Sam Hollyer is a Senior Software Engineer embedded at Mailchimp (Intuit) through Tensure Consulting, with six years of full-stack experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-facing libraries. He leads development of the Brand Engine—a microservices-based system that helps millions of small businesses discover and manage brand identity—and drove a migration from a legacy Content Engine to a Brand Service with a 99% user success rate. His work spans a Puppeteer-based web scraper for extracting logos, fonts, and colors, Kotlin/Spring Boot GraphQL services, and React component libraries powering Mailchimp’s post-signup onboarding flow. Sam prioritizes resilient distributed systems, seamless migrations, and product-first engineering that makes branding effortless. He pairs a practical engineering background with prior experience teaching full-stack development, reflecting both hands-on delivery and an ability to communicate complex technical concepts. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, he brings a hybrid background in accounting and software that helps him focus on measurable, business-oriented outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Accounting, Master of Science - MS Accounting at University of Houston
Professional Certificate Full - Stack Developer, Professional Certificate Full - Stack Developer at DigitalCrafts
Mathematics, Mathematics at Blinn College
Master of Science - MS Accounting, Master of Science - MS Accounting at University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business