Samuel Kurland
Software Engineer at Penn State University
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Kurland is a software engineer with a decade of experience building front-end and full-stack web applications, currently contributing to Microsoft’s Azure Portal Network UX team in Seattle. He brings deep practical expertise in React, TypeScript, responsive design, and legacy-browser compatibility from roles where he was often the sole front-end engineer shipping customer-facing and internal apps. Samuel pairs industry experience with academic rigor—he holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Cornell and teaches at Penn State—giving him a rare combination of technical craftsmanship and scholarly attention to detail. Though not actively seeking work, he continues to shape large-scale cloud UX and mentor students, blending production engineering with teaching.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, honors, Classics and Ancient Mediterrranean Studies, BA, honors, Classics and Ancient Mediterrranean Studies at Penn State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Cornell UniversityFull-stack web development, Full-stack web development at Galvanize Inc
English, German, French, Greek, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
pyside10
typescript10
duplicate10
vscode-extension10
editor10
visual-studio10
vscode10
cli10
firefox-webextension9
shortcut9
bash9
php9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
smk291/Insider
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 103 pushes, 44 branches in 4 months
smk291/tetris
Jun 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:143 commits, 2 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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