Samuel Maynard
Founder at Anki Decks
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Maynard is a founder and full‑stack engineer with 12 years of hands‑on experience building web and backend systems for startups and product teams. He has launched and shipped features at scale during internships at Airbnb and Square—building backend services that serve every frontend and UI tools that delivered large operational savings—and later served as founding engineer at HeadsUp before founding Anki Decks. His toolkit spans Python, Ruby, Java, Coffeescript/ES6, and real‑time sockets, and he has applied NLP and genetic algorithms in academic and personal projects. Samuel’s work blends practical product impact with curiosity-driven experiments—examples include a browser clone of a terminal game using socket.io and a genetic-image-matching project—highlighting both systems thinking and playful technical exploration. Based in the United States, he’s comfortable taking ambiguous problems from prototype to production and enjoys replacing off‑the‑shelf pieces with custom, well‑engineered solutions when it improves the product.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Freshman, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Freshman at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School, High School at Montgomery Blair High School
Chinese
Github Skills (200)
gpt4all10
image-generation10
gemma10
tmuxinator10
api10
ai10
mistral10
mamba10
text-generation10
kubernetes10
llama10
libp2p10
momentjs10
musicgen10
tpm10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
samm81/desktops
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year
windowselectronlinuxdesktopmacos
samm81/samm81.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2024
Contributions:68 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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