Sam Russak
Senior Software Engineer at Paramount
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Russak is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native, secure, and scalable systems across finance and payments domains. He has driven backend architecture at firms like BlackRock—creating Kafka Streams microservices, a Kafka OAuth open-source library, and Kubernetes-deployed Spring Boot services—and currently contributes to platform efforts at Paramount. Comfortable across the stack, Sam has delivered React/Node front-ends, Java REST APIs, and legacy .NET modernizations while integrating API gateways and Okta for enterprise-grade authentication. A University of Pittsburgh computer science graduate with a 3.7 GPA, he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical production support and release discipline. Notably, his work includes embedding ML models in services (DL4J) for real-time sequence tasks, reflecting a blend of systems engineering and applied machine learning.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA : 3.7, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, GPA : 3.7 at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (5)
SamRussak/Red_Canyon
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
SamRussak/Python
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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