Sam Pierson
Chief Information Security Officer
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSam Pierson is a seasoned technology and security leader with 16+ years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams from startups to enterprise. Currently serving as Chief Information Security Officer at Mechanical Orchard, he specializes in taking startups from zero to compliance by creating pragmatic Information Security Management Programs and embedding DevSecOps practices. His career blends hands-on software craftsmanship—shipping systems like the Human Cell Atlas upload service, Omada’s diabetes prevention platform, and the Second Life Marketplace—with deep infrastructure work across Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and serverless architectures. Sam is comfortable switching hats between architect, builder and security steward, having founded DevOps teams and stood in as interim security officer when needed. Based in Bellingham, WA, he brings a rare combination of scientific-platform experience and production-grade healthcare/commerce systems knowledge. Outside work he describes himself as an itinerant developer and “feline shepherd,” hinting at a practical, curious approach to complex problems.
16 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
HND Computer Science, HND Computer Science at MidKent College
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Github Skills (150)
ruby10
rails10
data-files9
html9
command-line-interface9
mvc9
sample-data9
file-upload9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
marketplace9
attack-defense9
spree8
currency8
cart8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sampierson/PR-VERSION-check-action
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 168 PRs, 205 pushes in 3 years 8 months
HumanCellAtlas/dcplib
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
A library of modules shared among multiple Data Coordination Platform components
Contributions:2 releases, 45 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 11 months
coordinationamong
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