Sam Santi
Tech Founder at Stealth Mode Startup
Earth, Texas, Italy
Summary
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SeniorSam Santi is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and tech founder with 14 years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across startups and mid-size companies. He has held technical and executive roles—founder/CEO and CTO—delivering backend-heavy systems in Python and contributing to prominent open-source projects like CKAN, where he improved code quality and packaging. At SurveyMonkey he led work on international growth and billing, bringing domain experience in scaling payment and globalization systems. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he combines hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a knack for refactoring legacy systems into cleaner, more maintainable architectures. Based in Texas with roots in Italy, he’s open to relocation and currently incubating a stealth startup, showing ongoing entrepreneurial drive.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
python10
back-end-development10
pep10
ckan10
backend10
jar9
counter9
php9
refactoring9
api8
user-data8
data-model8
data-set8
html6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on code style and formatting improvements, as evidenced by the "pep8" commit. They also made significant changes to the `setup.py` file, converting entry points to a dictionary format and cleaning up the file. Further contributions involved refactoring and optimizing the project's codebase by cleaning up code and addressing pep8 recommendations in different modules, like `ckan/logic/action`.
portalspythondatadata-catalogdbpedia
rshk/elo
Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 3 years
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