Sam Snyder
Vice President Of Engineering at Moderne, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSam Snyder is a vice president of engineering and founder focused on automated code refactoring and modernization, with nine years of professional experience and a background stretching from Microsoft to Tableau and Gradle. He builds engineering products that measurably improve developer productivity—turning multi-minute builds into seconds, creating distributed refactoring tools that patched hundreds of repos, and shipping analytics-driven features that improved build reliability. Sam combines hands-on Java backend and JVM-level expertise (including bytecode transformation and large-scale refactors) with product leadership to commercialize automation at Moderne, Inc. An active contributor to the well-regarded open-source rewrite project, he specializes in improving maintainability and correctness across large Java codebases. Based in Seattle, he pairs practical engineering craftsmanship with a data-driven approach to developer experience and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (6)
javas10
refactoring10
java10
refactor10
build-management8
release-management8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openrewrite/rewrite
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Automated mass refactoring of source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:105 releases, 415 reviews, 632 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions primarily focus on refactoring Java source code to improve maintainability, correctness, and compliance with coding best practices. They refactored and added specific features, modified existing classes, and removed unnecessary dependencies. Their work touched upon various aspects of the project, including refactoring existing classes and code constructs to align with best practices, making the codebase cleaner and more robust.
masspythonastabstract-syntax-treerefactoring
openrewrite/rewrite-maven-plugin
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
OpenRewrite's Maven plugin.
Contributions:27 releases, 23 reviews, 143 commits in 2 years 5 months
maven-pluginmavendebtbuild-timetechnical-debt
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