Samuel Gendler
Founder, Principal Software Engineer at Ideasculptor, LLC
Camas, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Gendler is a founder and Principal Software Engineer with nine years of recent experience and a multi-decade track record building high-performance, cloud-native distributed systems from blank slate to production. He combines hands-on systems design (Go, Python, C/C++, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code expertise (terraform/terragrunt) with executive-level leadership, having driven architecture, security, and cost reductions across startups and Fortune-class clients. Samuel repeatedly delivers large-scale wins—designing low-latency streaming and time-series pipelines, creating schema-aware Kafka clients that preserved ordering while cutting ops complexity, and directly reducing cloud spend by millions. He focuses on empowering engineering organizations through automation, frameworks, and standards, and has led org-wide migrations to GitHub, CI/CD, and security best practices. A fast.ai participant and prolific contributor to Google’s terraform module library, he blends deep systems craftsmanship with an appetite for applied ML and data-driven product work.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraMusic, Music at Santa Barbara City College
Github Skills (168)
testing10
go-redis10
protocol-buffers10
mocks10
protobuf10
serialization10
rpc10
mocking10
marshalling9
gcloud9
tunneling9
golang9
napi9
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ideasculptor/gcloud-reference-arch
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
A gcloud reference architecture implementation using Terraform and Terragrunt
Contributions:21 commits, 34 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 month
gcloudterragruntreference-architectureterraformterraform-provider
ideasculptor/gcloud-templates
Oct 2019 - Nov 2019
Terragrunt templates to support a reference architecture for gcloud
Contributions:19 commits, 26 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 month
gcloudterragruntinfrastructuretemplatesreference-architecture
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