Samuel Liebow
Backend Engineer, Risk Intelligence at Stripe
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Liebow is a senior backend engineer in Portland with eight years of experience building and optimizing distributed systems, currently focused on risk intelligence at Stripe. He has a track record of delivering high-impact projects on tight deadlines—driving order-of-magnitude performance wins, designing flexible rule engines, and leading pivots in system architecture during business transitions. Comfortable as a JavaScript/TypeScript expert, he also digs into low-level distributed debugging, incident response, and security at odd hours. An educator-turned-engineer, he has taught algorithms and system design, mentored junior developers, and contributed reliability fixes to the well-known hapijs/hoek utilities. He pairs a pragmatic, product-minded approach with curiosity for tooling and data-driven optimizations that reduce developer toil and run-time costs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Hack ReactorBachelor’s Degree, Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree, Psychology at Reed College
Github Skills (4)
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
nodejs9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hapijs/hoek
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Node utilities shared among the extended hapi universe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Samuel focused on enhancing the `contain()` utility within the Hoek library. Their contributions primarily involved addressing edge cases and improving the behavior of the `contain()` function, specifically concerning empty strings and arrays. The user also added test cases to validate and refine the function's logic, including testing various scenarios related to the "only" flag and array/string comparisons. This work aimed to improve the reliability and correctness of the Hoek library.
universehapiextendedhapijsnodejs
samliebow/kindsweeper
Jul 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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