Connor Sampson-Reitan
CTO + Software Engineer // Chicago, IL
Creating software, infrastructure, and security built to hold up in the real world.
Experience
2016 – Present
Chief Technology Officer + Founder · Maison de Code
Software studio building SaaS products, custom web and mobile apps, and fractional IT and network services for startups through large companies.
- Architected Base Assist, a multi-tenant operations platform of 20+ modular apps on a shared data model, so a client entered once flows across CRM, projects, time, and expenses.
- Built its WIP billing engine, cutting billing on multi-million-dollar projects from several days of manual entry to under 30 minutes.
- Own architecture, development, infrastructure, and client and vendor relationships end to end.
2018 – Present
Fractional CTO + Partner · SRP Environmental
Environmental health and safety firm specializing in large-loss and natural-disaster response. Started in field operations; now lead data, security, compliance, and technology.
- Project-managed the Hurricane Delta (2020) response for a local government client, leading a team of nearly 200 across 50+ buildings.
- Hired and led a development team building SRP inField, a field time and data collection app.
- Moved field teams from paper to cloud-synced iPad data capture, cutting errors and data loss and enabling real-time review for faster reports.
- Rolled out MDM across ~150 devices and led the company to PCI compliance.
- Lead beta partner for Base Assist, feeding real field and billing workflows back into the product.
2015 – 2018
Researcher + Teaching Assistant · Hofstra University
- TA for Introduction to Computer Science (Python) under Dr. Angeliki Zavou.
- Ran labs and office hours, coaching students to reason through and debug problems rather than handing them answers.
Research
2016 – 2018
“I Know What You Did Last Summer” · Hofstra University
Advisor: Dr. Angeliki Zavou
Showed how easily public social media data can be aggregated to profile real people and enable social engineering.
- Built a Flask app on the Twitter API to collect and correlate public posts into personal profiles.
- Pinpointed a high-profile public figure’s exact location from their public posts during a live presentation.
- Invited by Facebook, with advisor, to visit its Menlo Park campus following the research.
Skills
- Leadership
- Team leadership · Project management · Technical strategy & roadmaps · Client & stakeholder communication
- Engineering
- Full-stack architecture · Multi-tenant SaaS · Cross-platform apps · Infrastructure & DevOps · Security & compliance
- Languages
- TypeScript · Node.js · Python · C++ · Swift
- Platforms
- AWS · Cloudflare · Google Cloud
- Tools
- GitHub · VS Code · Xcode · Android Studio · MongoDB · DataGrip · Vim
- Spoken
- English · French
Education
- 2015 - 2018B.A. French and Computer Science · Hofstra University
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