Summary
Samuel Painter is a software development engineer with 13 years of experience, combining hands-on coding with engineering leadership to deliver scalable systems. He currently builds complex event-driven architectures at Amazon, leveraging AWS to drive reliability and performance at scale. Before Amazon, he led product lifecycle management initiatives at Virgin Hyperloop, overseeing PLM and configuration management, engineering process development, and engineering software solutions for core development teams. His early career includes student developer work with Google and Code for America, contributing to open-source civic-tech projects, which informs a user-centric, collaborative engineering approach. Based in Los Angeles, he holds a BA in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and a BS in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte, reflecting a strong academic foundation and a track record of turning complex requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English