Sam Yam
Co-founder, President & CTO at Patreon
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSam Yam is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 11+ years building high-scale consumer and creator platforms, best known as Co-founder, President & CTO of Patreon. He combines product instincts, analytics-driven iteration, and hands-on engineering to translate user behavior into sustainable monetization and engagement systems. Prior exits include founding AdWhirl (acquired into Google/AdMob) and early technical roles at Loopt and Ning, giving him deep experience in mobile ads, growth, and platform engineering. As a YC Expert and former StartX EIR, he mentors founders on product-market fit and scaling technical teams. Based in Chicago with a Stanford CS background, he blends academic rigor with startup pragmatism and a track record of turning experiments into acquired products.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Research Grant, Research Grant at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessAI Neural Networks: Training using Backpropagation, AI Neural Networks: Training using Backpropagation at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (143)
sqlite10
rocket10
2factor10
query-builder10
user-authentication10
rest9
rust9
postgresql9
swagger9
http9
duplicates9
rest-api9
web-development9
octicons9
asynchronous9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
YetAnotherMinion/YAMScratch
Jan 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 720 pushes in 5 years
scratchpadnothing
ThinkAlexandria/elm-html-in-elm
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 15 tags in 3 years 4 months
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