Connor Sampson-Reitan

Connor Sampson-Reitan

CTO + Software Engineer // Chicago, IL

Creating software, infrastructure, and security built to hold up in the real world.

Experience

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

  1. 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

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