# Samuel N.

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samueln

Passionate about delivering well-tested, quality code also a developer who likes to solve puzzles like KenKen.

Github link down below

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Scribd, Inc.
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Code Climate
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
- Enhanced user experience through implementing a lazy-loading strategy, dramatically reducing page load time from 30+ seconds to under 3 seconds.
- Efficiently executed the deprecation of key production table columns and data migrations, ensuring seamless functionality and enhancing data integrity.
- Spearheaded a new incidents API, key to a DORA metric, directly contributing to greater sales opportunities.
- Skills Utilized: Ruby, Rails, ReactJS,SQL, TypeScript, TDD, RESTful API, AWS, Docker, Terraform

### Senior Software Developer @ Capsule
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
- Designed a high watermark, usage-based payment system with metered invoicing, and streamlined Stripe integration for efficient subscription management.
- Implemented AWS services for video transcoding and transcription, facilitating universal accessibility of diverse video formats and improving user experience with video subtitles.
- Incorporated a headless CMS integration for white-labeling, streamlining customer personalization of product instances.
- Skills Utilized: Ruby, Rails, VueJS, Go, RESTful API, Web Components, AWS, CircleCI

### Platform Developer (Full Stack) @ HYPNO
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Led robust testing protocol development and drove the platform's major tech upgrade, enhancing security and performance with new version benefits.
- Optimized feature delivery through CICD implementation with CircleCI, reducing regressions and accelerating new feature development.
- Consolidated fragmented in-house tools into the main platform, reducing dependencies and boosting internal team productivity.
- Skills Utilized: Ruby, Rails, AWS, VueJS, RESTful API, CircleCI, Elasticsearch

### Software Developer @ Mentored
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Integrated video-conference tool, content system, and a paywall system for clients, converting their existing customers into subscription-based streams of revenue.
- Executed with the tech lead to deliver multitenant featured MVP using Rails that would allow internal staff to quickly build white-label platform instances for clients, offering premium content and experience.
- Incorporated Minitest for Ruby on Rails which decreased code defects and reduced regression bugs with robust unit tests and integration tests.
- Led a small team of contracted QA testers to ensure software quality.

### Web Developer @ Omada Digital
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Developed custom WordPress plugin which utilizes custom templates to transform affiliate content to increase user's call-to-action clicks.
- Delivered high quality products by ensuring responsive design, browser compatibility, and implementing fixes.

### Android Developer @ Cuny Codes Program
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Developed a community powered street parking app in Android, ParkEZ.
- Used Google Map API to render map with available parking spots with map markers.
- Utilized Ruby on Rails for server with PostgreSQL and its extension to manage parking locations and user accounts.
- Managed weekly sprints as a scrum master, identifying and removing impediments for the team.
- Applied test driven development practices to ensure clean code and fewer bugs resulting in higher quality of code and applied continuous integration to detect problems early with the code.

### Advocacy and Organizing Intern @ MinKwon Center for Community Action
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | 13619 41st Ave #3, Flushing, NY 11355
- Canvassed Asian American neighborhoods to inform community members about available social services
- Participated  in phone-bank to mobilize for immigration reform events
- Assist organizers to facilitate community meetings


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Hunter College
Jan 2008 – Jan 2016

### Web Development Immersive
General Assembly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nasamuel
- GitHub: https://github.com/samuelna
- Website: https://samuelna.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-23