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
messaging10
windows10
yubikey10
diceware10
flask-application10
google-books10
security10
kitty10
file-parser10
passphrase10
command-line-tool10
installers10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
sts10/nametag
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Generate random usernames
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
pythonpython3usernamesclirandom-generation
sts10/zig-zac-zoe
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
A basic tic-tac-toe game in Zig programming language
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
programming-languagezig
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