Sam Kessaram
Team Lead, Engineering at Zensurance
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kessaram is a Team Lead, Engineering with a decade of software development experience, currently leading engineering at Zensurance after progressing from individual contributor roles there since 2018. Based in Old Toronto, he combines hands-on coding and people leadership to deliver reliable insurance tech products, having cut his teeth at Fintros earlier in his career. With an academic background in bioethics from the University of Toronto, he brings a rare perspective on ethics and risk to product and engineering decisions. Sam maintains a public portfolio at samkessaram.github.io, signalling a practice of documenting work and technical interests beyond day-to-day delivery. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who balances shipping features with mentoring engineers and improving team processes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Arts, Bioethics Specialist, Honours Bachelor of Arts, Bioethics Specialist at University of Toronto
English, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
code-behind10
sqlite-database10
database-management10
sql-query10
vscode-plugin10
sqltools10
database-design10
oracle-database10
sql9
database9
azure9
postgresql9
mssql9
mysql9
vscode-extension9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samkessaram/notes-cli
May 2020 - Mar 2022
A command line tool for managing notes
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 10 months
command-line-toolnotescommandline-toolcommand-linecommandline
samkessaram/samkessaram.github.io
Nov 2016 - Jun 2024
Contributions:180 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
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