Thomas Sample
Founder at Karma Creative
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolThomas Sample is a founder and principal software engineer with 12+ years building ecommerce platforms, specializing in Ruby on Rails and Solidus. He leads multidisciplinary, distributed teams and has scaled engineering organizations as VP of Engineering and Principal Consultant while still diving into code, tests, and data migrations. His agency, Karma Creative, has delivered complex multitenant systems, just-in-time manufacturing storefronts, and machine-learning driven tooling—like an image-to-listing comic book classifier—alongside integrations with Stripe, Affirm, Klaviyo, and major CDNs. Comfortable translating technical tradeoffs for non-technical stakeholders, he pairs Agile project leadership with hands-on implementation to ship reliable, high-performance sites. He also brings entrepreneurial depth from founding earlier ventures in ecommerce and mattress retail, giving him product-market intuition beyond engineering.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Montville Township High SchoolUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstEngineering, Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (52)
storefront10
shopping-cart10
ecommerce10
rails10
ruby10
solidus10
spree10
paypal8
duplicate8
seo7
integrate7
avalara7
sales-tax7
react-router6
react6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karmakatahdin/solidus_seo
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Enhanced SEO in Solidus
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years
solidusecommerceseo
karmakatahdin/solidus-site
Jun 2020 - Nov 2021
Homepage and blog for solidus
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
solidussolid
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