Samuel Mullen
Engineering Manager at Freelance
Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Mullen is an engineering manager and builder with over 16 years of hands-on experience and two decades of delivering SaaS products, scalable APIs, and resilient architectures. He blends leadership—hiring, coaching, and reducing churn—with deep technical chops in Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Rails, PostgreSQL, and large-scale migrations across cloud platforms. At ActiveProspect he led migrations that multiplied stability and deployment speed, consolidated multiple products into a unified platform, and introduced incident and developer-facing processes that improved reliability. He also founded Makerplans.io, where he architected a full-stack search and custom scraping/indexing pipeline, and writes technical content on backend performance and SQL optimization. Based in Kansas, he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with a track record of turning technical debt into measurable business outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Leadership and Administration, BA, Leadership and Administration at Calvary UniversityComputer Technology, Computer Technology at Purdue University
English
Stackoverflow
2,490reputation
188kreached
18answers
11questions
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top-5%
Github Skills (89)
genstage10
concurrent10
broadway10
data-processing9
shell9
elixir9
netsuite8
locking8
reporter8
data-ingestion8
gossip8
data-stream8
plugin8
experiences7
notebook7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samullen/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:29 pushes in 8 years
samullen/pidfile
May 2010 - Apr 2014
Contributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
lockingnodejsneedpidsort-of-thing
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