Summary
Sam Sepasi is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Diego with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure web and mobile systems across startups and defense contractors. He leads design and implementation of MERN-stack APIs and highly available backend services, with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, performance tuning, and FHIR-compliant healthcare integrations. Sam has driven product launches from video proctoring to virtual care platforms, and at Northrop Grumman translated technical leadership into $14M+ in contract wins and over $1M cost savings. He combines full-stack engineering and team leadership—mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and reducing technical debt—to deliver production-ready systems. As a co-founder of a tutoring marketplace, he also brings entrepreneurial instincts and experience shipping user-facing mobile hybrid apps and serverless APIs. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, security-minded, and adept at turning complex regulatory and reliability requirements into smooth user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English