Summary
Samuel Berney is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience who leads vendor-managed teams at Meta through Affirma, blending hands-on technical depth with people-first leadership. He focuses on clean, intelligent solutions and platform architectures, having previously led core platform work for a modular, API-driven financial single-page application. Known for mentoring and creating a nurturing environment, he drives teams to exceed goals through collaboration and continuous learning. His background in physics and early research on pulsar modeling for NANOGrav hints at a quantitative, systems-oriented mindset and comfort with complex, distributed problems. Based in Reno, Nevada, Samuel brings a practical mix of architectural rigor and empathetic coaching that helps engineering teams scale sustainably.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at Oberlin College
English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German