(not) sam beck

Currently I work as a software engineer at Powin, where I helped design our optimization platform and led its development. Working with our director of analytics, I developed our market optimization offering and built out the data infrastructure required to make it operate autonomously across several energy markets.

Currently running in the cloud, controlling both physical and simulated batteries in real time.

Before I started working on software, I worked as a field engineer, comissioning (and troubleshooting) some of the first deployed grid-scale batteries in North America and Europe.

I founded Blueshift in 2012.

Blueshift developed and shipped the Helium speaker, which was the first supercapacitor-powered portable speaker made. Helium charges fully in 5 minutes, plays 6+ hours on a charge, and can be charged up to 500,000 times. Plus, it sounds awesome.

I ran Blueshift, which meant doing a lot of different things. I designed the electronics and the physical product, led marketing, sourced everything and set up a small factory in Portland to do final assembly.

pandabase is a tool that links Pandas DataFrames to SQL databases.

By default, pandabase uses the DataFrame's index as a primary key. This promotes sensible database structures, and makes it easy to maintain clean data, even when it must be updated frequently. Upserts! Includes additional tools for managing a simple database and comparing DataFrames. Tested under SQLite and postgresql.

learn more on github: pandabase or: pip install pandabase (python>=3.6)