Samuel Berkowitz
Senior Backend Engineer at Netlify
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Berkowitz is a Senior Backend Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building reliable web systems using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React, currently contributing to Netlify’s backend platform. He brings rare dual expertise from a prior career as a China analyst at RAND, where his research and writing appeared in major outlets, combining rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering. At Zendesk he shipped production-grade features as a senior engineer, and his academic background spanning Princeton, Tsinghua, and the University of Chicago reflects deep China-area and economic study. Outside work he channels the same curiosity into bicycle projects, music, and close attention to Chinese politics and literature—interests that inform his cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Tsinghua UniversityBA, Economics, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, BA, Economics, East Asian Languages and Civilizations at University of ChicagoChinese, Chinese at Princeton University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
strava-api8
esi7
eve-online6
strava6
api5
netlify2
rails1
ruby1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
skberko/chinese-news-web-scraper
Feb 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
skberko/roundtable
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:140 commits, 146 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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