Samuel Ballan
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Ballan is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web platforms, now contributing at Figma after earning an MS in Computer Science from NYU Tandon. He has a strong Ruby on Rails and JavaScript background, having designed JSON Schema–driven configuration systems, rebuilt critical billing pipelines to vastly improve performance, and developed admin tooling that enabled non-engineers to manage integrations. Samuel pairs backend systems work with React front-ends and Node services, and has a track record of shipping automation that replaced slow manual processes and reduced error rates dramatically. He’s comfortable across the stack, mentors others (former Fullstack instructor) and brings a practical focus on tooling and operational reliability that often surfaces in behind-the-scenes developer productivity improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringFull Stack Software Development, Full Stack Software Development at Fullstack AcademyBachelor’s Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology at Brandeis University
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
angular8
cli8
typescript7
swiftui7
swift6
mongodb6
ecmascript6
nodejs6
forms6
javascript6
dex5
ios5
search-engine5
angular-cli4
directive3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gcivil-nyu-org/Team_Team6_CS-GY-6063-Fall2021
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:85 reviews, 238 commits, 57 PRs in 5 months
sballan/proxyDB
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:75 PRs, 171 pushes, 41 branches in 1 month
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