Sam Kottler

Sam Kottler is an experienced engineering leader with a strong background in security and infrastructure. His expertise lies in software, systems, network, and security engineering, as well as capacity planning and operations. He is dedicated to assisting technical teams in leveraging infrastructure to create business advantages. Sam has successfully implemented compliance frameworks like SOC 2, PCI, and HIPAA for global providers. His skill set includes extensive experience in commercial deal-making involving contracts and risk mitigation across diverse hardware, software, and services transactions. Sam Kottler's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from Wheaton College Massachusetts. Throughout his career, he has held key positions at various organizations, including Technical Staff at Stealth, Director of Engineering, Infrastructure and Security at PlanetScale, Senior Manager, Infrastructure Engineering at GitHub, Senior Engineer + Manager at DigitalOcean, Engineer, Virtualization R&D at Red Hat, and Systems Engineer at Venmo.