Sam Schlinkert
MLIS Student at Pratt Institute - School of Information
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Schlinkert is an editor-turned-programmer and MLIS student in New York with 12 years of experience shaping social-first newsrooms and building tooling to measure and secure digital audiences. At CNN+ he bridged editorial, product, and engineering, automating QA and workflows with Rust and Python, and previously spent a decade optimizing social strategy and analytics via Ruby, JavaScript, and bespoke Slack and browser tools. Passionate about privacy, passwords, and technical writing, Sam combines journalism instincts with systems thinking—writing utilities to analyze social performance and improve passphrase security. Now studying systems librarianship, they bring a rare mix of newsroom rigor, hands-on engineering, and a focus on documentation and user-centered security.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy Economics, BA Philosophy Economics at Duke UniversityMaster's degree Library and Information Science, Master's degree Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute - School of Information
Github Skills (200)
parser10
digital-humanities10
mass10
python10
windows10
yubikey10
cracking10
diceware10
cocoa10
security10
flask-application10
cryptocurrency10
transcript10
kitty10
passphrase10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sts10/fgift
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Generate randomly assigned gift givers from a list of groups of people
Contributions:5 releases, 138 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 3 months
rustsecret-santa
sts10/remote-words
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Passphrase word lists optimized for inputting into smart TVs
Contributions:5 releases, 31 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
rustrust-langwordlists
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