Sam Kottler
ML Infra at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSam Kottler is an experienced infrastructure and ML-infra engineer and leader with 11 years building resilient, secure, and cost-efficient systems for companies from startups to large platforms. He has led teams and programs at GitHub, PlanetScale, and DigitalOcean—driving multi-region disaster recovery, cloud-prem solutions that generate major revenue, and a 7x reduction in per-unit costs through storage and compute optimizations. Sam blends deep systems, networking, and security expertise (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA experience) with hands-on work in data center, cloud, and edge operations, and has repeatedly scaled teams and vendor relationships to meet aggressive deployment timelines. Now at Cursor focusing on GPU reliability, he brings a rare combination of pragmatic engineering, audit-grade security practices, and measurable operational cost improvements. Based in New York, he pairs technical breadth with a track record of turning compliance and performance requirements into production-ready infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Pre-Law, Bachelor's degree Pre-Law at Wheaton College Massachusetts
English
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Github Skills (200)
vulnerability-management10
aws-services10
airbyte10
amqp-client10
osquery10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
gcp10
security10
infrastructure10
clustering10
operator10
puppet10
cybersecurity10
redis-client10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
planetscale/beam
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
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Contributions:4 reviews, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 9 months
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skottler/dotfiles
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:51 commits, 62 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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