Sam Rechsteiner

samrech@umich.edu(989) 980-4210Austin, TXsamrechsteiner.com

Skills

Work Experience

Auxo Solutions
Application Engineer
Sep 2024 — Present
  • Established a git repository to store and manage configuration files and streamline the process for doing peer reviews by using the diff feature, which was previously done inefficiently by manual inspection
  • Created, shared, and contributed to several shell and javascript scripts to automate common tasks
  • Applied my study of computer science and math to create optimized software architectures
  • Designed Mongo DB and NoSQL databases
  • Lead client-facing meetings and sprint demos where I fielded client questions, comments and requests
  • Developed skills in web development, requirements gathering, and technical communication in the process of building a life insurance application for an external client over the course of a year
Dev10
Associate
Jun 2024 — Sep 2024
  • Completed a 3-month Java/Sprint Boot bootcamp
  • Received first place in the culminatory Hackathon
  • Was placed with the company I currently work for, Auxo Solutions
Restaurant Industry
Assistant General Manager/Pastry Lead/Sous Chef
Oct 2019 — Jun 2024
  • Managed teams of 10-20 employees
  • Interviewed, hired, and trained employees
  • Provided excellent customer service, maintained customer and vendor relationships, ensured product quality
  • Managed inventory ordering, costs, storage, and organization
Ignite XDS
Software Development Intern
Sep 2018 — Oct 2019
  • Developed a time clock application for internal use and as a SAAS, built with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, and hosted on Heroku
  • Communicated with clients on how to define requirements, and explained technical details in a simplistic way to foster mutual understanding

Projects

Recipio
  • Built a Python web scraper and scraped ~320,000 recipes from 3 popular recipe sites
  • Used Hadoop map reduce to create an inverted index of tf-idf scores to implement part of Google's page rank algorithm
  • Java Spring Boot and Python Flask servers handle requests from the React frontend to the MySQL database and inverted index file
Envelop
  • Implemented Three.js to render an interactive 3D globe
  • Vue interface allows users to make requests to the SQLite product database which are routed through the Flask server

Education

University of Michigan
BS - Computer Science/Mathematics
Ann Arbor
Sep 2018 — Apr 2022
  • Web Systems - EECS 485
  • Database Management Systems - EECS 484
  • Linear Algebra - MATH 217
  • Combinatorics - MATH 465