Welcome to Samier's GitHub

I'm a software engineer --> lawyer --> software engineer.

I currently work at Steward.

Prior, I was at Trellis, a legal tech startup, where I was on the Machine Learning Team.

Basics of my CV

My tech work history (further details can be found on my Linkedin):

• Software Engineer at truBrain (Python/Django; Postgres) (2013 - 2014)
• Software Engineer at Panjo (C#; React; Postgres) (2014 - 2016)
• Lead Software Engineer at Bloomtri (TypeScript; React; Postgres) (2016 - 2018)
• Cofounder at Scripta (we have left no remnant of our failure online) (TypeScript; Python; React; Google Cloud Platform) (2022 - 2023)
• Software Engineering Fellow at Free Law Project (Python/Django; Postgres) (2023)
• Software Engineer at Trellis (Python; Postgres; AWS) (2023-2025)
• Senior Software Engineer at Steward (Python; AWS; Kotlin; Postgres) (2025-)

Education

Brown University, 2013

Columbia Law School, 2021

Written Content

• An academic paper I wrote about animal rights which is the only thing w/r/t having gone to law school about which I am not ashamed: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjel/article/view/9871/4943
• My "engineering blog": https://ss108.substack.com/
• An article I wrote about creating Singletons in JavaScript that I have now come to believe is almost certainly bad advice: https://www.sitepoint.com/javascript-design-patterns-singleton/