Work Experience
If you’re interested in hiring me, please take a look at my resume, GitHub, LinkedIn, or email me at sam@samlowe.dev.
Lead Software Engineer
- Led a team of five engineers, reporting directly to the CTO, to build our enterprise resource planning website and the OasisNow mobile app that automates business records, securely stores business documents, manages customer relations, and assigns work to employees
- Streamlined and automated company-wide workflows to process through months-long invoice backlog in a single day, shorten new employee onboarding from half an hour to under five minutes, and generate time cards with proof of work for every employee on the app, all with convenient approval user experience for management
- Designed and built the platform end to end: ported a 15,000-line Node/Express prototype to a full-stack Django and HTMX application. Designed and implemented a continuous deployment pipeline on Railway to integrate PostgresSQL database with tested backup and restore capability, a CI pipeline running an automated test suite and pre-commit hooks, and more on both staging and production environments
- Cut over the entire application from West Coast to East Coast servers, bringing latency down from 100ms to 5ms for our Boston-only user base, and reduced full-suite test time from 30 minutes to 5 by parallelizing tests and diagnosing CPU pegging
Data Analyst
- Analyzed poll data with Python’s data analysis and visualization libraries, both for public press releases and for polls commissioned by campaigns around the country
- Designed the weighted single transferable vote algorithm used to simulate outcomes for the 2025 New York City mayoral primary poll, which was featured in the New York Times
- Built and led the data pipeline and PDF-report generator behind an internal FastAPI platform for compiling cited, district-level electoral and demographic reports nationwide, from a 1,700+ dataset pipeline spanning Census, electoral, and campaign-finance sources
Software Engineering Co-op
- Designed and prototyped a Go microservice and API to parallelize data processing
- Took ownership of an in-progress cron job and cleanup script and drove it to production, clearing dozens of gigabytes of stale log files out of storage and preventing further buildup
- Added features and unit tests to a Django back end, working with SQL, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes
Back-End Engineer
- Built KLIP, a proof-of-concept app for a wearable device that allows runners to alert trusted contacts or emergency services if they feel unsafe while running
- Integrated Google Maps, RapidSOS, Bluetooth, and MySQL into our Django back end alongside a team of two other back-end engineers
- Led weekly standups to discuss team progress and priorities and to resolve issues