Sam Howes
Software Engineer at Bullhorn
Portland, Maine Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Howes is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable .NET systems, developer tools, and CI/CD pipelines across healthcare, startups, and large tech. He excels at improving team dynamics—introducing Agile practices, code review workflows, and mentoring engineers to raise delivery quality rather than waiting for “perfect” hires. Technically fluent in C#, .NET, Azure DevOps, and modern front-end stacks, he’s migrated legacy platforms, consolidated monorepos, and automated deployments to reduce toil and risk. Past roles include tooling work at Google and leading productivity-focused initiatives that turned manual processes into source-controlled pipelines. Based in Portland, Maine, he combines hands-on refactoring and automation with an emphasis on choosing the right tool for the job and measurable team uplift.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Boston University College of Engineering
Github Skills (49)
gazelle10
starlark10
cgo10
rule10
scalable10
file-generator10
nuget9
build-system9
bazel9
golang9
mono9
bazel-rules9
extensible9
protobuf8
dotnet8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samhowes/NgFlowSample
Oct 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
samhowes/rules_msbuild
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Build .csproj files with Bazel
Contributions:24 releases, 2 reviews, 127 commits in 1 year 1 month
dotnetbazelcsprojstarlarkbazel-rules
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