Sam Kortchmar
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Kortchmar is a full-stack software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building mission-critical web applications and leading engineering teams. As Lead Software Engineer at SpaceX he managed ground systems and mission control software for Starship, pioneering web-based, subsecond command-and-control tools for safety-critical operations. Now Co-Founder & CEO of RateMate Energy and pursuing an MS in Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia, he is transitioning into climate tech with a product-first engineering mindset. He combines hands-on implementation across front-end and backend stacks with proven leadership in high-stakes environments and large-scale user-facing systems. Sam is open to contracting and consulting roles where he can apply his UX-focused problem solving to energy and climate challenges. A lesser-known strength is his early experience building high-volume applicant platforms and analytics at Hack@Brown, which honed his ability to ship polished tooling under tight timelines.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Brown UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Earth and Environmental Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University
Spanish
Github Skills (196)
reselect10
testing10
memoized-selectors10
flask-socketio10
automation10
chartjs-plugin10
flask10
javascript10
chromium10
socket10
firefox10
api10
developer-tools10
js-api10
socket-io10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hackatbrown/2015.hackatbrown.org
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:364 commits in 11 months
skortchmark9/reselect-tools
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Debugging Tools for Reselect
Contributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 9 months
devtoolsdebuggingdebugging-toolsjavascript
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