Sam Potasznik
Senior Frontend Engineer at EnergyHub
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Potasznik is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Austin with six years of professional experience building delightful, mission-driven web and interactive experiences. He has led front-end efforts for startups and nonprofits—shipping award-winning educational games, VR meditation apps used by healthcare workers, and data tools that doubled internal satisfaction at Replate. Comfortable across the stack of web UI techs, Sam evolved from Flash to HTML5 game frameworks and now specializes in React and Redux, bringing rapid learning and pragmatic tool choice to each project. He pairs hands-on implementation with product discovery, mentorship, and front-end training, and has a track record of generating positive press, five-star app ratings, and measurable user impact. As a founder of PlayGood Games and Wide Open Games, he combines product design, storytelling, and engineering to craft experiences that move people as well as metrics. Motivated by using technology for health, justice, and climate, he’s happiest building UX that serves real communities.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Brown University
Github Skills (24)
census10
jekyll9
gulp7
rental6
documentation-generator3
api-documentation3
django3
documentation3
uswds3
web-application3
language-processing2
twist2
phaser2
devrel2
community-management2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uscensusbureau/the-opportunity-project
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 1275 commits, 496 PRs in 9 months
uscensusbureau/coil-site
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Jekyll site for showcasing the projects and people that make up Census Open Innovation Labs
Contributions:29 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
innovationjekyll-sitejekyllcensus
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