Samuel Goodell is an AI and software engineering lead with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise web applications and leading cross-functional teams from Dallas. He’s shipped frontend-first products at companies like Dottid and Getty Images, improving BI tooling, Electron app performance, and video processing to reduce costs while maintaining high quality through automated testing. Comfortable across the full stack, Samuel has contributed to notable open-source Ionic projects—improving plugin docs and UX for the Ionic site—and maintains a practical focus on developer experience via Storybook and component-driven design. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also trained and worked in emergency medicine, bringing a calm, data-driven approach to high-pressure situations and operational thinking to product and architecture decisions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paramedic, Paramedic at Madison Area Technical College
Contributions:46 commits, 24 PRs, 26 pushes in 9 days
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and demo functionalities of the ionic-site repository. Their contributions include adding and modifying demo links, updating the fixed header for components pages, and improving transition effects. Furthermore, the user made modifications to list and button components for the mobile preview app. These changes improved the site's responsiveness and usability.
Native features for mobile apps built with Cordova/PhoneGap and open web technologies. Complete with TypeScript support.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Samuel's contributions focused on the Ionic Native plugins, enhancing documentation and implementing features related to the Google Maps plugin. The user updated documentation with paid plugin notices and improved the presentation of labels in the sidebar and main documentation. They also addressed code formatting and resolved merge conflicts within the project.
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