Samuel Otani
Chief Technology Officer at Pinnacle SF
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Otani is a technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building user-focused web products and platforms for creators and artists. He combines hands-on JavaScript and full-stack engineering experience from roles at Zendesk and multiple startups with strategic product delivery as CTO of Slingshot. A proven organizer and founder, he co-created Pinnacle and has led large hackathons and mentorship programs, mentoring high school interns to ship production-ready apps. Comfortable working across the US, Europe, and Japan, he speaks four languages and brings cross-cultural fluency to distributed teams. Samuel’s background spans SaaS, consulting, IoT and ML front-end work, reflecting a pragmatic blend of design-minded UI craft and cloud-native engineering.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of San FranciscoHigh School, High School at Radnor High SchoolHigh School Graduate, High School Graduate at San Mateo High School
English, Spanish, French, Catalan
Github Skills (48)
javascript10
nextjs10
react10
frontend8
ionic8
camp8
ui-components7
ios7
bash7
linux7
vue7
angular7
html6
capacitor6
rust6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
saescapa/saescapa.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jul 2026
Personal Website July-2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 10 years 1 month
css
SMHS-Programming/club
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:73 PRs, 102 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 8 months
javascriptprogramming-club
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