# Sam Bartek

> Senior Software Engineer @ Scale AI

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sambartek

Experienced software engineer with proficiency in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and scalable solutions. Contributing significantly to enterprise cloud platforms and fintech apps at Ridgeline and CashEx, I am skilled in system design and implementation. I excel in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments, and I'm eager to explore and develop skills in AI/machine learning, areas where I am keen to expand my professional horizons.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Scale AI
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founding Engineer @ CashEx
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
• As the first employee and founding engineer, architected the entire backend on GCP, focusing on scalability, security, and efficiency. Achieved 100K downloads and processed over $4M in transactions in the first year
• Implemented various technologies, including PostgreSQL, Cloud Functions, and Terraform, to build transaction processing infrastructure to handle 1000+ user transactions per day
• Improved app build and release time from 1 hour to 10 minutes by automating the build pipeline
• Built 20+ integrations and developed internal libraries for seamless third-party API usage

### Data Platform Engineer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
Developed an innovative job scheduler for company-wide use, improving internal tooling infrastructure. Optimized data pipeline performance and implemented monitoring solutions, processing over a 1,000,000+ transactions per hour.

### Product Engineer - Accounting @ Ridgeline
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Incline Village, Nevada
Key contributor to the team's expansion and development of advanced accounting products. Re-engineered the transaction processing engine, enhancing reliability and consistency.

### Product Engineer - Trading @ Ridgeline
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Incline Village, Nevada, United States
Led backend development for trade handling, employing AWS and Python. Built frontend components using React and TypeScript.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Garmin
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Kansas City, Kansas Area
Aviation Database Team 

Developed a web crawler for extracting online data for internal processing for new product for pilots. 
Wrote C program to expand Feature Scanner tool to check for database SD card corruption

### Controls Engineering Intern @ ECS Solutions, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Evansville, Indiana Area
Collaborated with engineering team to program and create Human Machine Interface to be 
installed in a customer’s factory.


## Education
### Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-bartek

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Last updated: 2026-03-22