Sam Purtill

Current

• Software Engineer at YouNoodle
• Managing Partner at Okapi Studio

Past

• Founder at ClassOwl
• Product Manager at MonVia Corp.

Education

• Stanford University
• Buckingham Charter High School

Recommended

5 people have recommended Sam

Connections

263 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• YouNoodle
• YouNoodle Profile
• Okapi Studio

Sam Purtill’s Summary

Learning every day.

Sam Purtill’s Specialties:

ActionScript, Python, Django, Ruby, Rails, PHP, MySQL

Sam Purtill’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  YouNoodle

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Writing specs and lots of PHP.

• Managing Partner

  Okapi Studio

  (Design industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Managing the US operations and relationships with clients.

• Founder

  ClassOwl

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

  Built the product from scratch. Put the startup on hold to join YouNoodle in San Francisco.

• Product Manager

  MonVia Corp.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2006 — January 2007 (6 months)

  Managed a team of designers in Romania and coordinated how everything was to be implemented with a team of engineers in Sri Lanka

Sam Purtill’s Education

• Stanford University

  Mathematical & Computational Science 2009 — 2013 (expected)

  Activities and Societies:

  ASSU, BASES

• Buckingham Charter High School

  2004 — 2007

Additional Information

Sam Purtill’s Websites:

• YouNoodle
• YouNoodle Profile
• Okapi Studio

Sam Purtill’s Interests:

Programming, Reading, Skiing

Sam Purtill’s Groups:

•    Hacker News

Sam Purtill’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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