Sam Rivera
Senior Product Engineer · Austin, TX
Full-stack engineer with 4+ years building production web applications for product teams and digital agencies. Strong opinions on TypeScript, readable code, and the value of a well-tuned CI pipeline. Outside of work you'll find me behind a camera or iterating on sourdough pizza dough formulas.
Work Experience
Brightline Software - Remote
Lead engineer on the core product team, owning full-stack features from design through deployment. Work closely with product and design to ship user-facing improvements on a two-week sprint cadence.
- Architected and shipped a real-time collaboration feature used by 40 000+ daily active users.
- Reduced API p99 latency by 38 % through query optimization and strategic caching layers.
- Mentored two junior engineers and led quarterly tech-debt sprints.
Pixel Labs - Austin, TX
Built and maintained client-facing web applications for a digital agency serving e-commerce and media brands. Delivered projects end-to-end from scoping to launch.
- Delivered 12 production web applications across retail, publishing, and SaaS verticals.
- Built a headless CMS integration layer that cut average content-deployment time from 2 days to 4 hours.
- Introduced automated accessibility auditing into the CI pipeline, bringing all client sites to WCAG AA compliance.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Graduated with honors. Coursework emphasized software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems, and HCI. Senior capstone project: a collaborative recipe-scaling web app (which, yes, partly inspired the pizza calculator).