Sam Gould

Sam Gould has a diverse work experience, starting with their current role as a Site Reliability Engineer at Anark Corporation since November 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Systems Development Engineer at Amazon from October 2020 to November 2021.

Before their time at Amazon, Sam was a Software Engineer II (Linux SRE / Cloud Engineer) at Analysts, working as a contractor to USGS at the Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) from July 2018 to September 2020. They ensured continuous uptime of USGS Landsat data processing infrastructure, managed continuous delivery of on-premise software, and facilitated the cloud transformation of various processing systems to AWS.

Prior to Analysts, Sam worked as a Senior Programmer / Analyst at South Dakota State University from April 2015 to June 2018. Here, they established internal software development methodologies, standards, and tools, deployed and administered web servers and SSO identity providers, designed and implemented SQL database schemas and ETL workflows, and developed REST APIs and web forms.

Before that, Sam was a Software Engineer at IBM from May 2013 to April 2015. They developed and maintained storage I/O infrastructure kernel modules for IBM i platform, performed integration testing over storage area networks, and supported customers through diagnosis and resolution of field problems.

Before entering the software engineering field, Sam gained internship experience at Daktronics as a Software Development Intern in 2012, where they added new features and fixed bugs in media player software. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Quality Assurance Student from April 2011 to October 2011, performing exploratory, new feature, and regression testing of electronic display software. They also worked as a Mechanical Design Student from January 2010 to March 2011, where they designed mechanical parts and assemblies of scoreboards and advertisement panels.

Sam's earliest work experience can be traced back to Beef Products, Inc., where they worked as an Engineering Intern in 2009, performing various tasks for senior engineers. In 2008, they held the position of a High School Engineering Intern at the same company, where they developed a design proposal and led a team of high school engineering interns.

Sam Gould attended South Dakota State University from 2008 to 2013, where they pursued a double major in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. They obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree upon completion of their studies. In 2019, Sam obtained the certification of AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. This certification was received in partnership with Alpine Testing Solutions through Amazon.