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About

Code that stays shippable

I care about clear boundaries, typed contracts, and interfaces that stay fast as products grow.

$ whoami --verbose
user:
sam.patel
role:
Full-Stack Engineer
loc:
Seattle, WA
stack:
TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres

Skills

Capabilities

  • TypeScript100%
  • React100%
  • Node.js80%
  • Postgres80%

Activity

Recent feed

  1. recentshipped Relay API · ★1240
  2. recentshipped Traceboard · ★1043
  3. recentshipped Shipgate CI · ★846
  4. 2021joined Northwind Labs as Senior Engineer

Experience

Career

  • Senior Engineer

    Jan 2021 — Present

    Northwind Labs

    Owned billing workflows and the customer admin console.

Education

Studies

  • B.S. · Computer Science

    University of Washington

    Jan 2014 — Jan 2018

Repositories

Open source & side work

  • Event-driven billing API with idempotent webhooks.

    Node★ 1240⑂ 240
  • Observability UI for product funnels.

    React★ 1043⑂ 203
  • Preview environments for every PR.

    DevOps★ 846⑂ 166
  • Secrets rotation service with audit trails.

    Security★ 649⑂ 129

Projects

Selected work

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Developer Tooling

Relay API

Event-driven billing API with idempotent webhooks.

  • Node
  • Postgres

★ 1240↰ 240

Analytics

Traceboard

Observability UI for product funnels.

  • React
  • Charts

★ 1043↰ 203

Commerce

Shipgate CI

Preview environments for every PR.

  • DevOps

★ 846↰ 166

Infrastructure

Vault Keys

Secrets rotation service with audit trails.

  • Security

★ 649↰ 129

Web App

Edge Cache Kit

CDN caching patterns for Next.js apps.

  • Edge

★ 452↰ 92

API

Query Studio

Internal SQL explorer with saved views.

  • SQL

★ 255↰ 55

Services

How I can help

Product engineering

End-to-end features from schema to UI.

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Performance audits

Find and fix Core Web Vitals regressions.

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Testimonials

What clients say

“Sam ships carefully — typed, tested, and easy for the next engineer.”

Sarah Chen

Eng Manager · Contoso

“The billing API Sam designed has survived three product pivots.”

Michael Torres

Staff Engineer · Northwind Labs

Contact

Let’s work together

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