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Sam Gomena

Software Engineer

Portland, Oregon 🌲

Who

Hey! I'm Sam and I'm a software engineer who's passionate about technology and the positive impact it can have on humanity. I believe in writing software that is fast, sane, and uncompromisingly beautiful at all levels of the stack. I'm interested in working on ideas that meet these aspirations in collaboration with people that share these values.

Experience

Tripwire

Software Engineer

Building security and compliance solutions to protect the digital world.

  • React

  • TypeScript

  • Java

  • Python

  • Go

  • Kafka

  • K8s

  • Docker

  • Kotlin

  • AWS

  • GraphQL

  • Jenkins

2018 - present

Portland State University

Research and Development Engineer

Researched and developed a distributed edge computing platform with a focus on facilitating machine learning as part of the Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program.

  • Python

  • JavaScript

  • node.js

  • Docker

  • MongoDB

  • TensorFlow

  • Spark

  • Hadoop

2017 - 2020

Tektronix

Software Engineering Intern

Developed and maintained a BDD testing framework and associated infrastructure responsible for ensuring the quality of next generation oscilloscope software and hardware platforms.

  • Python

  • Jenkins

  • Cucumber

  • C++

  • JavaScript

  • SQL

  • Chef

2016 - 2018

Technologies

A non-exhaustive list of technologies I've worked with

  • JavaScript
  • Bootstrap
  • Python
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • Flask
  • Docker
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind
  • TypeScript
  • Jenkins
  • Java
  • Terraform
  • Postgres
  • Kotlin
  • Rust
  • Go
  • Django
  • Node.js
  • SQL
  • Helm
  • MongoDB
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Kafka

Education

Portland State UniversityB.S. Computer Science2021

  • Participated in the Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program collaborating with a team of graduate students conducting research on distributed machine learning systems.

  • Worked under multiple professors doing independent study on projects ranging from designing and developing business intelligence tools for a local transit company to an end-to-end encrypted messaging system leveraging self-sovereign identity.