Samuel Thompson
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Thompson is a Senior Software Engineer based in the Twin Cities with five years of hands-on experience building backend systems at Target and prior full-stack .NET work at CPSI. He specializes in backend services using Kotlin, Java, Groovy and Spring, and has strong foundations in C#, ASP.NET, RESTful/SOA design and SQL Server from earlier roles. A fast learner and self-motivated engineer, he pairs graduate-level training in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Minnesota with practical Agile and CI/CD experience to deliver production-ready features. Notably, his trajectory reflects rapid growth from associate roles into senior engineering at a major retailer, bringing both pragmatic engineering and cross-functional collaboration skills to complex backend challenges.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at St. Cloud State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at University of MinnesotaAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, ENGINEERING, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, ENGINEERING at Itasca Community College
Github Skills (7)
robotics9
robot9
ros8
visualizer5
datasets4
visualization3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samuel-thompsonn/browser-fighting-game-client
May 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
samuel-thompsonn/browser-fighting-game-server
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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