I build things.
Sometimes useful, sometimes just fun.

ml/ai @ fcf  ·  somewhere in tennessee

sampom.me
1const sam = {
2  currently: "ml/ai @ fcf (formerly jtc)" ,
3  building: ["our-door", "candor", "krismas lights"] ,
4  vibe: "candlelight and command line" ,
5  status: "open to interesting problems" ,
6};

Backend developer. ML/AI student at Columbia FCF (formerly JTC). Apothecary vibes, cloud infra. I build for the gaps — the people and problems mainstream tech walks past. Automate whatever's annoying me that week, and I'm currently building a light sequencer for a 25-foot pixel mega tree.

Selected Works

JONA live

Multi-tenant workforce platform for second-chance hiring orgs. Real-time job matching, secure data isolation.

FastAPI PostgreSQL Next.js
Our Door in progress

Socratic curriculum chatbot for classroom cohorts. Students get hints and next steps, not answers. Ingests course curriculum into a vector DB and guides learners through it.

Python RAG Vector DB
Candor early

Graph-powered job matching for justice-impacted people. The systems that exist don't serve this population — this one tries to.

Neo4j Sentence Transformers Python
[in development]
Banyan Onboarding Portal past work

Candidate pipeline management across 8 states and 18+ correctional facilities. Built during my contract with Banyan Labs.

FastAPI Supabase Redis

things I built for me

muse live

My personal Open WebUI interface. Wanted to run local models on my own hardware — no GPU yet, so it lives in the cloud until I fix that.

Open WebUI self-hosted
hex personal

Ops dashboard I built while contracting at Banyan. ClickUp tasks, JONA health, quick links, all in one place. Built because the tools I needed didn't talk to each other.

dashboard ClickUp
KrismaS in the works

Site for my husband's annual pixel light show — 25-foot mega tree, full house sequenced, people pull up in front of the house and tune to the radio station. Also building a sequencer so he stops buying other people's sequences.

xLights beat detection RGB pixels
[coming]

About

Backend developer. ML/AI student at Columbia FCF.

I build tools for people mainstream tech ignores, automate my own workflows, and occasionally make things just to see if I can.

// currently
ml/ai @ columbia-fcf
available · open to contract

// building
our-door: socratic curriculum bot
candor: graph-powered, justice-first
krismas lights: pixel sequencer
tech stack
Neo4j FastAPI PostgreSQL Sentence Transformers Docker Next.js Python Redis Supabase

let's make some magic.

available for contract work and full-time roles