Sam Trautwein
Founder at Tristero Incorporated
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Trautwein is a founder and technical entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building AI-driven systems and deeptech ventures from San Francisco. He studied computer science with an AI concentration at Stanford and has a track record as an early engineer and operator—most notably as the second employee at Plenty, where he built data pipelines and environmental control systems for commercial hydroponics. Sam co-founded Carbon-12 Labs to research algorithmic stablecoins and later moved into strategy and investing roles before founding Tristero, a startup focused on building genuinely dark liquidity pools. He combines hands-on systems architecture and data engineering with product and go-to-market experience across robotics, fintech, and agtech. An uncommon thread in his career is designing low-cost, off-grid automation for international development projects, showing a practicality for constrained environments as well as high-scale systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
W2020 Startups, W2020 Startups at Y CombinatorLeave of Absence Computer Science: AI Concentration , Leave of Absence Computer Science: AI Concentration at Stanford University
Spanish, English, Chinese, Latin
Github Skills (22)
segwit10
bip329
java9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
bitcoinj9
js-client5
ethereum5
spectrum5
api4
algorand4
endpoints3
api-requests3
client-library3
rust3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TauferLab/QCN-Explorer
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 1 month
sendwyre/lamassu-snapcard
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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