Sam Stern
Director Of Engineering at CodeApprove
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Stern is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14 years of experience building developer-facing products and platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering in San Francisco. He blends hands-on mobile and cloud engineering expertise with developer relations—previously managing Firebase developer programs at Google and overseeing open-source quality across dozens of repos. Sam has led teams focused on developer experience, observability, and internal platforms at growth-stage companies, and he founded CodeApprove to streamline GitHub pull request reviews. Known for clear technical documentation and community-building, he pairs product sensibility with practical open-source stewardship rooted in early bioengineering training from the University of Pennsylvania.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Bioengineering Computer Science, BSE Bioengineering Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (93)
code-review10
firebase-authentication9
firebase-realtime-database9
directive9
parser9
firebase9
sasl9
firebase-storage9
firebase-db9
java-api9
firebase-cloud-messaging9
cli8
firebase-messaging8
firebase-database8
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hatboysam/codeapprove
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
https://codeapprove.com
Contributions:11 reviews, 26 PRs, 133 pushes in 1 year
codeapprove/feedback
Feb 2021 - Feb 2024
Feedback for CodeApprove
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
kotlinfeedback
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