Samantha Baldwin
Technical Director at Zoobilee, Inc.
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamantha Baldwin is a Technical Director with 16 years of engineering leadership, currently running technology at Zoobilee, Inc. based in North Carolina. She blends hands-on back-end development skills with strategic oversight, having contributed notable audio-processing work to the open-source whipper project—adding pre-emphasis detection and replacing gstreamer with SoX for more accurate peak calculations. Comfortable deep in tooling (vim/dvorak hints at a power-user mindset), she refactors and integrates complex modules while keeping accuracy and reliability top priorities. Her career shows a steady commitment to production-grade systems and pragmatic engineering decisions that favor correctness over cleverness.
16 years of coding experience
University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio
Github Skills (4)
sox10
audio-processing10
python10
cli9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
whipper-team/whipper
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits, 35 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Samantha primarily contributed to the `whipper` project by implementing and integrating new features related to audio CD ripping. Their work included adding support for pre-emphasis detection and incorporating SoX for peak level calculations, replacing the use of gstreamer. They also refactored code, modified existing modules such as `morituri/image/table.py`, and integrated new components like `SoxPeakTask`.
unixaccuracypythonspeedcd-ripper
RecursiveForest/whipper
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
Unix CD ripper preferring accuracy over speed (FORKED from morituri)
Contributions:87 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 8 months
unixspeedcd-ripperlinuxripper
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