Sam Korn

Software Engineer

Location
Westminster, Colorado
Email
hire@samkorn.me
Phone
(720) 441-1937
Website
https://samkorn.me
LinkedIn
samuel-korn
GitHub
kornpow

Work Experience

Product Design Contract | Modulo.Network

Remote
05/2025 — 09/2025

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.

Engineer | LightningSpore LLC

Denver, CO
10/2023 — 09/2025

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

  • Integrated electronics, embedded software, and 3D printed models for a suite of ESP32-based sensor modules.
  • Developed an optimized wordpress e-commerce store, which supports USD and BTC payments.
  • Leveraged AI for code generation, image generation, speech-to-text, and have augmented and accelerated workflows of the lean team using hosted, and self-hosted AI models, agents, and MCPs.
  • Designed and deployed a Kubernetes cluster of VPN-networked Linux devices to run the 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 multi-currency payment, credit, and invoice notification system, which allowed customers to pay for our services, using BTCPay and Stripe APIs.
  • Optimized a Python SaaS REST API backend on AWS Lambda with CloudFormation-managed deployments.
  • Deployed PostgreSQL and SQLite databases with automated AWS S3 backup solutions.
  • Deployed Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack to track application performance and infrastructure metrics across Kubernetes clusters.
  • Designed multi-cloud k8s cluster operation by implementing a site-to-site VPN between our AWS and GCP datacenters.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated testing and ArgoCD for deployment.
  • Designed and deployed scalable AWS and GCP infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Designed and managed employee WireGuard VPN infrastructure.

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.

  • Migrated Jenkins jobs to Jenkinsfiles for improved composability and code auditability.
  • 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.
  • Created label printing system allowing users to link physical seed pods to their app-based garden data.
  • 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