Summary
Sam Kamenetz is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and infrastructure that accelerate team velocity at startups across domains. He ships end-to-end solutions—from Python and TypeScript services to Dockerized ETL pipelines, Postgres schema fixes, and Terraform-provisioned databases—while improving onboarding, CI/CD, and observability. At Prelude and WayScript he scaled ingestion workflows and implemented billing/provisioning systems, and earlier roles spanned embedded C work and Kubernetes-driven microservices. Sam thrives in small, product-driven teams focused on reliability and developer experience, and he prefers roles that deepen his infrastructure and tooling expertise (excluding fintech). A practical tinkerer, he often surfaces non-obvious gains—like refactoring SQL wrappers to remove connection bottlenecks—that multiply operational capacity without adding headcount.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Ithaca College