# Sam O.

> Senior Software Engineer at Quizlet

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samo

Software engineer with a deep knowledge of high-traffic web applications. While my expertise ranges across the stack, I'm most interested in designing efficient and sustainable frontend systems.


Skills:

Languages and frameworks: JavaScript/ES6, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Redux, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, Styled Components, Go, PHP, SQL, jQuery, SCSS

Tools: Git, Webpack, Babel, Storybook, NPM, Yarn, Firebase, Jenkins, Google Tag Manager, Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Quizlet
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Vox Media, LLC.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
At Vox, I worked on Pinnacle, one of Vox Media's core web platforms.

Vox Media acquired Group Nine Media in 2022.

### Software Engineer @ Group Nine Media
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
At Group Nine Media, I worked on the Sites Team, where I helped maintain and develop the five consumer-facing sites in G9's portfolio (Thrillist, POPSUGAR, The Dodo, NowThis News, and Seeker) using a single, brand-agnostic modern stack based on Node, Next.js, React, Redux, and GraphQL.

Group Nine Media Acquired POPSUGAR in 2019.

### Software Engineer @ POPSUGAR
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, CA
At POPSUGAR, I was a member of the Frontend Team, where I helped maintained and developed new user-facing features for the POPSUGAR frontend using JavaScript, jQuery, and SASS. I also developed tools for the editorial team using PHP (Drupal).


## Education
### Fullstack Software Development
App Academy

### Master of Philosophy - MPhil in Classics and Comparative Literature
Yale University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in Classics and Comparative Literature
Williams College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-20