Samuel Neff
Principal Architect at Waterlily Planning
The Villages, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Neff is a Principal Architect with nearly two decades of hands-on software development and leadership, currently shaping product architecture at Waterlily Planning after senior engineering roles at Wayfair, Walmart Global Tech, and Capital One. He combines executive-level product integration experience with a developer's discipline—regularly implementing features, mentoring engineers, and driving consistency across codebases. A full-stack practitioner comfortable across languages and platforms, he also contributes to open-source tooling like MimeTypeMap, where he updated mappings to align with IANA and Apache standards. Based in The Villages, Florida, Samuel pairs a background in international relations and economic theory with deep technical intuition, often surfacing practical solutions to complex cross-team challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Economic Theory, Bachelor’s Degree, International Relations and Economic Theory at American University School of International Service
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Github contributions (5)
samuelneff/MimeTypeMap
Oct 2014 - May 2022
Provides a huge dictionary of file extensions to mime types.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 86 commits, 73 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the project by modifying the MimeTypeMap.cs file, which appears to be a dictionary mapping file extensions to MIME types. Their work involved updating and expanding the mappings to include various MIME types, including OpenOffice, and correcting entries. The user also refactored the project structure, added a test project, and bumped the version number. Furthermore, the user updated the mappings to reflect recent IANA and Apache standards and fixed some errors.
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samuelneff/react-control-flow
Jul 2018 - May 2021
Control flow components for React
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 10 months
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