Samuel Whittenberger
Applications Developer III
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Whittenberger is an Applications Developer III and full-stack engineer with eight years of experience building JavaScript/TypeScript frontends (React, Angular, Vue) and backends in Node and Java Spring. He currently supports Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine after roles at LightFeather and Salesforce-focused positions where he bridged product needs with scalable implementations. A University of Florida CS graduate now pursuing graduate study at Georgia Tech, Samuel brings both academic rigor and practical delivery to enterprise and research-oriented projects. He contributes to notable open-source work on Internet Archive’s Open Library, improving ISBN/LCCN validation and front-end UX for book and edition management. Comfortable moving between UI polish and backend validation logic, he has a track record of fixing subtle data rendering issues while shipping user-focused features. Based in the New York City area, he combines cross-functional collaboration with a knack for improving developer-facing form and validation flows.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (8)
open-source10
javascript10
front-end-development10
python9
google-books9
html8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
internetarchive/openlibrary
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
One webpage for every book ever published!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 18 PRs, 47 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality related to the Open Library project's book and edition management features. They implemented improvements to ISBN and LCCN validation logic, including adding new validation rules and error messages. The user also made contributions to the front-end, such as adding a 'required' attribute to file inputs and refactoring the autocomplete feature for language selection. Furthermore, they fixed author rendering issues and updated mybooks droppers.
reactinternet-archiveeverlibrary-cataloguepublished
sbwhitt/openlibrary
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
One webpage for every book ever published!
Contributions:103 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 6 months
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