Sam Placette Software Developer at MapMyFitness

Sam and I worked together at Tippr on several high profile projects and during that time I found Sam to be a top notch engineer and a delight to work with. Sam always showed a positive "can-do" attitude no matter what the task while at the same time always being open to various processes that pointed headed managers like myself foisted on the development team.

I highly recommend Sam and would love to work with him again in the future.

I worked directly with Sam for nearly a year, at the Austin office of a startup named Tippr, with a complex codebase much of which predated both of us.

During that time working with Sam, mutually reviewing code changes in the Agile style, he demonstrated a deep understanding of software design, coding, and best practices. His improvements covered nearly every aspect of the application, from elegant web UI element enhancements to back-end financial business logic to extensive regression tests, and with an underlying reliable correctness that makes working with his code, and him, a delightful experience.

On top of his immense contributions directly to the codebase, Sam also excels at mentoring, rapidly advancing the capability of those teamed with him, and doing so with a good humor not always seen in key developers under pressure, and somehow doing so with no apparent impact on his impressive coding throughput.

I wholeheartedly recommend Sam Placette and would gladly work with him again.