Sam Poder
👋 G'day! My name is Sam. I'm an Australian who grew up in Singapore; nowadays, I live in California. I'm learning all about computers and languages at Berkeley. Hack yeah!
I enjoy making things (mostly involving code), playing soccer, running hackathons and learning about random pieces of trivia.
Here are a couple of projects I'm proud of:
🌏 A 4D multimedia experience showcasing the upcoming challenges caused by global warming.
🎶 An interactive sound festival built for Innovation Week 2021 (built using Sonic Pi).
🌁 The behind-the-scenes of the first high school hackathon since the pandemic!
At school, I'm a TA for CS70 (Berkeley's discrete mathematics and probability theory class). I also help organise Cal Hacks and co-teach the Cubstart DeCal on web development.
Away from school I spend my time working with friends on 🏦 HCB — an open source fiscal sponsorship platform built using Ruby on Rails. We give people the tools they need do incredible things in the real world: hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship.
We recently shipped our own version of Expensify!
This summer, I'm moving to 🗽 New York City and interning at Ambrook! Ambrook builds financial tools that enable farms, ranches, and other industrial operations to become more sustainable and profitable.
At the end of the day though, the Bay Area is my home and I love exploring it; here are some recent pictures of mine:
If you're ever in the area (say hi!), I'd recommend checking out Grotto Rock Park, Albany Bulb, Twin Peaks, the Clark Kerr Fire Trails, and Dolores Park.
More things of mine are on my GitHub, @sampoder. Feel free to email me about anything at sampoder [at] berkeley.edu.