Sam Rivera
Product engineer by day. Landscape photographer and pizza nerd by weekend. I build things for the web, obsess over dough hydration ratios, and try to take at least one good photograph per roll of film.
A bit about me
Full-stack TypeScript developer with a focus on product-quality UX and maintainable systems. Currently building at Brightline Software.
I shoot landscape and street photography, mostly on a mirrorless digital body but still run the occasional roll of film through a vintage Pentax K1000.
Baker's percentages, cold-fermentation windows, flour protein content — I built an Excel calculator for dough ratios that became a surprisingly popular web app.
Recent writing
All postsHow a quest for the perfect Neapolitan crust turned into a deep dive into baker's percentages, fermentation science, and more spreadsheet cells than I'd like to admit.
Slowing down to 36 exposures per roll changed how I approach every photograph — digital included.
A pragmatic look at the tools that made a real difference in the projects I shipped this year — and the hype that didn't.