# Samantha Whitmore > software engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samanthawhitmore I very rarely check LinkedIn messages FYI Cofounder: https://new.computer/ My Github: https://github.com/sjwhitmore ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cursor Jan 2025 – Present ### Founder @ New Computer Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, CA ### Founder Fellow @ South Park Commons Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Member @ South Park Commons Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Head of Engineering @ Maximus Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Building machine learning software and hardware for the entertainment industry. ### Head of Engineering @ Kensho Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 - Led the data infrastructure unit at Kensho through our acquisition by S&P Global and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 2019. Reported directly to the CEO and grew the team from 5 to 11 over the course of a year. Responsible for technical project planning and prioritization, code review, and mentorship of the team. Maintained regular individual contributions to the codebase. - My team developed and owned a variety of data services, including our ingestion service, Adagio, which pulls in all data ranging from web scraping to news feeds to financial price data in a standardized format from ~50 different external locations, our symbology database, and our timeseries database. (Python, RabbitMQ, gRPC, Django, Kubernetes, Postgres) - My team worked with the machine learning team to build infrastructure for their workflow including a model deployment service, a model training service, a model testing service, and a special dynamic set of resources for backfilling data if model capabilities changed. (Kubernetes jobs, RabbitMQ, Python, gRPC, S3) ### Software Engineer @ Kensho Technologies Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts - Built the backend of many of Kensho’s user study applications and dashboards, as well as Kensho Now, a realtime forecasting platform. - Developed and owned our financial scoring logic, which backtests ~100 assets in ~100 scenarios in a few seconds (built using numpy, pandas, celery). - Participated in an on-call rotation for >2 years (one of four senior engineers in the rotation). Responsible for diagnosing issues on the fly if paged at any hour. Successfully resolved on the order of ~10 production outage issues. (AWS admin, Kubernetes) ### Research Assistant @ Harvard Physics Department, Gabrielse Group Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Worked on the lepton magnetic moment experiment in Professor Gerald Gabrielse's group, identifying sources of vibration in the Penning trap, a device used to contain and monitor the position of a single electron or positron. Designed custom vibration damping mechanism in Solidworks and built it in the machine shop. ### Head Course Assistant for Math 21b: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations @ Harvard University Math Department Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 Served as a course assistant in the Harvard Mathematics department for 3 years. Responsibilities included running a one hour class once a week to augment the curriculum, supervising homework help sessions and answering student questions, and grading submitted problem sets. ### Summer Student Fellow @ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked under Dr. Lisan Yu in the Physical Oceanography department. Developed algorithms for spatial and temporal analysis of satellite wind velocity data. Showed recent statistically significant shift in patterns over the Southern Ocean with hypothesized connections to climate change. Presented findings to department. ## Education ### Master of Advanced Studies (MASt) in Experimental and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Physics and Mathematics Harvard University ### Stuyvesant High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sjwhitmore --- Source: https://flows.cv/samanthawhitmore JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samanthawhitmore/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11