Summary
Samuel Naden is a business-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend, data, and ML systems that connect product goals to measurable outcomes. He has repeatedly shipped greenfield consumer and enterprise features—from a Rust-based home battery optimizer serving hundreds of customers to migrating thousands of users onto a multitenant serverless AWS architecture. Samuel excels at rescuing and modernizing legacy systems (reducing runtimes from hours to minutes with PySpark at Surest) and at operational tooling that keeps IoT fleets and ETL pipelines healthy. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Python, Go, Rust, Java, Postgres, TimescaleDB, K8s, Prometheus), he favors pragmatic automation and algorithmic solutions that cut manual work and costs. Based in Denver, he blends hands-on engineering with a collaborative product mindset and a knack for enabling teams to move faster.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Middleton High School (Middleton, Wisconsin)
Master’s Degree, Data Science, Master’s Degree, Data Science at University of Minnesota
Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Math, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Math, Computer Science at Macalester College
English, German