Summary
Samuel Robertson is a Senior Full-stack Developer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput web platforms and integrations, currently driving the next generation of job boards at CollegeRecruiter.com from Tokyo while working fully remotely. He has a proven track record at Revolution Messaging of architecting scalable Node.js systems that handled thousands of requests per second and building server-side configurable form systems and CRM integrations that added tens of thousands of constituents to client lists. Comfortable across the stack—React, Node, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ—he blends hands-on coding with API and UX design to deliver reliable data flows between platforms like Mailchimp and NGP/VAN. His background in mechanical engineering and experience teaching at a bootcamp give him a practical, systems-thinking approach and an aptitude for mentoring less-experienced developers. Notably, he balances product-minded feature work with operational reliability, preferring remote roles and bringing decades of customer-facing troubleshooting to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University
MEAN Stack and Computer Programming, MEAN Stack and Computer Programming at Coding House
English, Japanese