Sam Korn

Software Engineer

Location
Westminster, Colorado
Email
korn94sam@gmail.com
Phone
(720) 333-4371
Website
https://samkorn.me
LinkedIn
samuel-korn
GitHub
kornpow

Work Experience

Contractor | Modulo.Network

Remote
05/2025 — Present

Developing a hardware and software platform for a new type of digital storage setup for bitcoin private keys.

  • Used OpenCV and Python to accurately read binary data from a custom metal device.
  • Integrated new sensor capabilities in the existing SeedSigner hardware wallet platform.
  • Designed PCBs and 3D printed enclosures to aid in the product development.

Founder/Engineer | LightningSpore LLC

Denver, CO
10/2023 — Present

Incorporated a business which applies technology to streamline agricultural processes by developing hardware and software to optimize mushroom cultivation.

  • Assembled a lean team with various contractors to build a compelling e-commerce store powered by WordPress, which supports a wide variety of payment options.
  • Leveraged AI for code generation (Claude/Cursor), image generation (Flux), speech-to-text (Whisper), and have accomplished a variety of tasks using both hosted, and self-hosted AI models, LLMs, and MCPs.
  • Integrated electronics, embedded software, and 3D printed models for a suite of ESP32-based sensor modules.
  • Designed and deployed a Kubernetes cluster of VPN-networked Linux devices to run the business website, webhooks, and internal tools.
  • Managed infrastructure using Ansible (self-hosted), and Terraform (Cloud-hosted).
  • Cultivated a multitude of different species of mushroom, cataloged and stored genetics.
  • Developed a web application for printing custom labels using a templating system built using FastAPI, Tailwind CSS and HTML.

Platform Engineer | Voltage Cloud

Remote
09/2021 — 10/2023

Building easy to deploy cloud infrastructure which allows business to easily accept payments using Bitcoin/Lightning.

  • Architected a payment, credit, and invoicing system, which allowed customers to pay for our services using Bitcoin or USD, using Stripe APIs.
  • Established a Python-based SaaS REST API Backend running in an AWS Lambda environment. Managed our deployments using AWS Cloudformation.
  • Implemented postgres and sqlite relational database systems, and created automated backup systems using AWS S3 and other tools.
  • Collaborated closely with platform team to deploy and manage our Kubernetes-native Prometheus and Grafana stack.
  • Designed multi-cloud k8s cluster operation by implementing a site-to-site VPN between our AWS and GCP datacenters.
  • Streamlined our CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD to run tests and deploy code.
  • Led the design and deployment of our AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure using Terraform with an eye for scalability and reliability.
  • Implemented cloud security best practices by participating in our SOC2 certification planning and implementation.

DevOps Engineer | Biarri Networks

Denver, CO
08/2020 — 09/2021

Creating deployment pipelines, and other tools, that enable developers working on advanced computation to optimally design fiber optic networks for the telecommunications industry.

  • Initiated an effort to migrate our jobs from classic Jenkins to using Jenkinsfiles, which is more composable, and easier to audit as code.
  • Enhanced internal tools to improve data-flow to leadership and managers.
  • Executed a system upgrade for our high-performance solver servers using Terraform, minimizing customer downtime, while adhering to strict upgrade requirements.

IoT Engineer | Babylon Micro-Farms

Charlottesville, VA
08/2017 — 07/2020

Developed electronics, embedded software, and cloud software to enable fleets of hydroponic farms to grow quality produce.

  • Wrote embedded Linux Python code for our farm modules, and managed OTA updates to the devices.
  • Developed a Django based backend API which ingested farm sensor data, and allowed for control of the device using a React Native mobile app.
  • Developed a label printing system, which allowed for tracking physical plant seed pods to info in a database.
  • Awarded a patent for an automated hydroponics nutrient dosing system: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20200396917

Electrical Engineer | Canvas Technology

Boulder, CO
06/2016 — 07/2017

Designed and manufactured electronics, and created testing systems for an advanced computer vision warehouse robot.

  • Installed hardware and software onto high performance PCs, which was the brain of an autonomous warehouse vehicle.
  • Collaborated with team members in our software, electrical, and mechanical teams to develop a new embedded architecture, which allowed for simpler communication and wiring.
  • Created a test rig in C#, which tested the operation of an embedded-system wheel assembly.
  • Designed, debugged, and iterated on a variety of PCBs, including a motor driver, a MCU communications hub, and a LED unit, and created cost-optimized BOMs.
  • Manufactured electronics in-lab using a pick-and-place machine and reflow oven.

Open Source Projects

SeedSigner Luckfox Pico

10/2024 — Present
BuildrootLinuxElectronics
  • Created a GitHub actions build pipeline to cross-compile a custom Linux OS image using Buildroot, to support the hardware and software requirements.
  • Designed a variety of custom PCBs to interface the Luckfox Pico with 3 different SPI display modules.
  • Designed a 3D printed enclosure to hold the Luckfox and components.
  • Modified Seedsigner Python code to interface with the new hardware.
  • Implemented camera access using the V4L2 driver, opening the door running the code on a more diverse set of embedded hardware.

JSON Resume Theme

10/2024 — Present
AIJavascript
  • Forked an existing resume theme, and modified it to be more easily parsable by ATS systems.
  • Added Tailwind CSS to the theme for easier and more consistent styling.
  • Created a deployment pipeline to deploy the resume to nginx docker container running on a k8s cluster.

KiCAD API for PCB Design

05/2025 — Present
PythonElectronics
  • Interfaced KiCAD API with Python to create a tool for generating footprints for PCB design.
  • Created a set of Python scripts for automating various tasks related to PCB design.

High-Availability Bitcoin Lightning App Deployment

10/2024 — Present
BitcoinKubernetes
  • Docker and Kubernetes based deployment of a high-availability Bitcoin and Lightning node.
  • Enabled a high-availability setup by deploying a etcd cluster for coordination between the multiple nodes.

Education

University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

08/2012 — 05/2016

Software

Python Golang AWS Javascript Terraform Docker Kubernetes C# Rust Bash Scripting Jenkins CloudFormation DynamoDB PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB GCP

Hardware

KiCAD Altium Eagle Fusion360 3D Printing Embedded Linux Microcontrollers