Summary
Sam Tape is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable APIs, SPAs, and the infrastructure to build, test, and deploy them. He has led product and technical efforts from early-stage startups to larger teams—designing billing systems that processed $20M+ in customer revenue, building scheduling engines that scaled customers tenfold, and shipping Slack and Twilio integrations to simplify operations. Comfortable across the stack, Sam has driven migrations (Zapatos to Drizzle), created OpenAPI-driven doc pipelines, and authored blueprints for rapidly bootstrapping Go services and Kubernetes configs. He combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship, having onboarded and grown teams while owning product development end-to-end. Based in Minneapolis, he’s seeking a leadership role where he can influence product direction and uplift fellow engineers. An obsessive focus on operational reliability and measurable business impact often surfaces in the tools and automation he builds behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Grinnell College
English