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Sam Randall
Software Engineer
Now building: Unreal tooling + clean web UITexas, USA

I build fast,reliable software.

I like engineering polished experiences with clean architecture.

TypeScriptReact / Next.jsPythonC++AWSDocker
Engineering
What I focus on

Full stack web development with a focus on performance and clean UI

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Design taste
What I focus on

Interfaces that feel crisp: motion, typography, and spacing done right.

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Shipping mindset
What I focus on

I bias toward action: prototypes → iterations → real releases.

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Featured work

A couple things I’m proud of.

Raid

Unreal Engine 5C++Procedural GenMultiplayer

A "cowboys in space" multiplayer first-person shooter built in Unreal Engine 5 with C++ across 18 gameplay modules. A server-authoritative Rust backend (Axum + PostgreSQL) handles auth, inventory, matchmaking and persistence, alongside the Gameplay Ability System and StateTree-driven AI. Includes a custom Python terrain-generation tool that builds 16-bit heightmaps from fBm / ridged-multifractal noise with C++-accelerated thermal & hydraulic erosion, 21 biomes, and SDF / marching-cubes cave meshing, with assets authored in Blender.

Veridical Manufacturing

Next.jsStripeAWS

A full-stack manufacturing e-commerce platform built with Next.js 15, React 19 and TypeScript. Server-authoritative catalog, pricing and tax; a Stripe checkout hardened for production with idempotency keys, Stripe Tax, and cart-aware shipping rates. Redesigned around a shared design system of reusable UI primitives, with full technical SEO: per-page metadata, Open Graph / Twitter cards, JSON-LD structured data, canonical URLs and generated sitemaps. Shipped via a check-gated deploy pipeline (types, lint, build) and multi-stage Docker to AWS ECR / EC2 behind Caddy with automatic TLS.

Honest & Reliable Motors

Next.jsSQLiteAWS

A production marketing and lead-generation website for Honest & Reliable Motors, a Texas used-car dealership built around a vehicle-finder service. Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind v4, backed by SQLite (better-sqlite3) with Litestream streaming replication to S3 for point-in-time restore. Includes runtime-editable inventory, lead-capture forms, and a custom admin panel with HMAC-signed cookie sessions — inventory CRUD plus an integrated email inbox where inbound mail (SES → S3) is parsed and indexed into SQLite, with reply and compose. Deployed as a hardened Docker container behind Caddy with automatic TLS on EC2, using least-privilege IAM policies and a documented deploy runbook.

Veridical Mobile Apps

SwiftUIKotlinBLE

Native companion apps on both platforms, SwiftUI (iOS) and Kotlin / Jetpack Compose (Android), that pair with 6-channel BLE relay hardware over the HC-08 UART profile to control trailer lighting and hydraulic power-jack systems. Includes a checksummed binary command protocol, latching and momentary (press-and-hold) controls, live RSSI display, and Android 12+ runtime permission handling.

Lighthouse: Person Detection

YOLOv11DjangoVue

A real-time person-detection web app: a FastAPI + OpenCV service ingests webcam / RTSP / video streams, a YOLOv11 model performs detection, and a Django + Channels backend pushes live stats over WebSockets to a Vue 3 / Vuetify frontend. Multi-service, GPU-aware, and containerized with Docker Compose.

Want to build something together?

If my skills are what you’re looking for, feel free to reach out.