Samuel Thornton
Senior Full-Stack Developer at Genuity - gogenuity.com
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Thornton is a Senior Full-Stack Developer based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building web applications across Ruby on Rails, .NET, Node, Angular, and TypeScript. Currently at Genuity, he brings senior-level ownership of full-stack systems and a strong background in UX from prior roles as Director of UX and front-end lead. He combines practical design sensibility—having started as a creative designer and UX specialist—with deep backend experience in C#/.NET and modern JavaScript stacks. Samuel’s career shows a pattern of moving between hands-on development and product-facing design, enabling him to translate user needs into maintainable engineering solutions. He also holds an M.Div., reflecting a broader intellectual curiosity and communication skills that inform team leadership and stakeholder collaboration. Known for shipping end-to-end features and thriving in both startup and institutional settings, he’s comfortable bridging design, UX, and backend architecture.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad, Study Abroad at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaMaster of Divinity (M.Div.), Theological and Ministerial Studies, Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Theological and Ministerial Studies at Western SeminaryBA, PR - Communication, BA, PR - Communication at Washington State University
Spanish
Github Skills (31)
typescript10
typescript-definitions8
dts8
linux8
javascript7
windows7
lazy-loading7
lazyload7
srcset7
macos7
vanilla-javascript7
viewport6
backgrounds6
cross-browser6
scrollbar6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sdthornton/sam-thornton
Apr 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
sdthornton/css-style-guide
Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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