Summary
Samuel Crider is a Senior Engineer based in Portland with a decade of experience building backend web applications and optimizing databases across cloud-native environments. He blends a strong mathematics and mathematics-education background with hands-on expertise in Python, Java, Groovy, and JS, plus deep operational experience with MySQL/Postgres, Solr/Elasticsearch, MongoDB and Kubernetes-based deployments. Samuel has led teams and technical roadmaps—reducing deployment times, introducing DevOps practices, and architecting microservices that keep large indexing pipelines consistent at massive scale. Comfortable across AWS services and monorepos, he focuses on API development, cloud applications, and mathematical modeling, bringing a teacher’s clarity to mentoring and process design. Colleagues rely on his planning, organization, and ability to translate complex requirements into practical, high-performance systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate of Computer Programming Computer Science, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate of Computer Programming Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor's degree Mathematics And Mathematics Education, Bachelor's degree Mathematics And Mathematics Education at East Carolina University