Samuel Lam
Co-Founder & CTO at PermitFlow
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Lam is a founder and technical leader with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of PermitFlow, a venture-backed startup simplifying building permits for developers, contractors, and architects across the U.S. He combines startup grit with product-grade engineering from prior roles at Uber and Amazon, scaling backend systems that support high-throughput merchant and driver platforms. At PermitFlow he helped raise $36.5M and has driven tooling that supports over $1.2B in project value and thousands of housing units, reflecting a focus on impactful infrastructure and housing affordability. Samuel also has a decade of entrepreneurial experience running a digital agency and non-profit leadership, showing an ability to bridge technical execution with community and organizational initiatives. He holds a BS in Computer Science & Statistics from Harvard and is fluent at moving ideas from research and prototypes into production-ready services. A less obvious trait: he has repeatedly paired engineering work with mission-driven causes, from cancer patient research to anti-cyberbullying and international aid, signaling product work guided by social impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
W22, W22 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science & Statistics at Harvard UniversityJericho Senior High School
English, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (14)
estate10
expressjs8
mongodb7
nodejs6
javascript6
jquery6
accordion6
angular5
ecommerce5
typescript5
summaries4
postgresql4
chrome3
chrome-extension3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samuelklam/number-partitioning
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push in 1 month
jasondashwang/streams
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:79 commits, 20 PRs, 79 pushes in 12 days
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