Sam Thompson
Principal Software Architect at CTRLPoint Physical Access Control System
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Thompson is a Principal Software Architect with 12 years of experience building web applications, industrial IoT, and security systems from prototype to product. He founded CTRLPoint, an open-source RFID physical access control system he designed and fabricated himself, and recently showcased it at maker events, reflecting a hands-on hardware + software skill set uncommon in senior software architects. Sam has led engineering work across startups and enterprise teams—improving device reliability, refactoring DTLS stacks for performance and security, and shipping Node.js/AWS Lambda solutions—while also founding community initiatives like sacjs and Maker HQ Sacramento. A self-taught developer turned mentor, he blends practical electronics and embedded systems expertise with full-stack web engineering and a passion for teaching makers of all ages. Based in Sacramento, he’s equally at home leading small squads to deploy scalable cloud services or soldering hardware for a demo.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Security, Computer Science Security at Sacramento City College
English, French, German
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Github Skills (88)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samt/barcode
May 2014 - Aug 2014
barcode generation for nodejs
Contributions:68 commits, 20 comments, 7 issues in 2 months
pdf417barcodesisbnjavascriptupc
samt/node-wiegand
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Wiegand Interface via GPIO in Node.js
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
gpionode-jswiegandnodejs
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