# Sam Russak

> Software Engineer

Location: Denver Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samrussak

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working across multiple domains and technologies.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Paramount
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Mollie
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

### Software Engineer @ BlackRock
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Denver Area
•	Designed and built scalable SpringBoot REST APIs which allowed multiple bank clients to integrate business critical data 
•	Lead developer for suite of microservices providing asynchronous data processing using Kafka Streams
•	Created a Kafka OAuth Open Source library which allowed for teams within, and external to, our organization to utilize Kafka in a secure manner through any OAuth provider 
•	Developed cloud native applications and deployed to Kubernetes environment utilizing Helm for configuration management
•	Provided production support, defined Agile release schedules, and maintained legacy .Net code-base
• Configured and managed NGINX servers for handling web traffic and authentication flows for downstream applications
• Integrated Apigee API Gateway and Okta Authentication into Java backend services

### Software Engineer Associate @ Contractor
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Denver Metropolitan Area
• Lead developer for a microservice web application utilizing React, Redux and Node JS which allowed multiple applications to be developed using a single web interface
• Designed and built a RESTful API in an Apache Tomcat environment, this allowed users to train and test datasets on a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), an Autoencoder, or a LSTM neural network
• Configured and developed a MLP neural network for sequence classification, an Autoencoder for anomaly detection, and a LSTM neural network for partial sequence completion on live data using the Deeplearning4J (DL4J) library

### Software Developer Internship @ Federated Investors
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
•	Developed MVC .Net and Web Forms client applications
•	Upgraded old VB6 programs to modern WCF services for sending and receiving banking data
•	Implemented and maintained stored procedures for an Oracle database
•	Built and upgraded SQL Server Report Service designs and queries 
•	Wrote Shell scripts for BMC job automations 
•	Conducted and documented unit tests and code reviews


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-russak-8869b1b4

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Last updated: 2026-03-23