Grassroots Analytics
Aug 2026 – present
Junior Artificial Intelligence Engineer
AI Engineer Intern · Jan – Aug 2026
Built the news pipeline, reusable article library, and AI chat workflows. Now developing donor segmentation and scoring tools.
Software engineer · Baltimore, MD
Nathan Samson.
Software engineer at Grassroots Analytics and computer science student at UMBC. I build AI tools, reliable systems, and software that protects people’s data.
How it started
Experience
Capital One
Jun – Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern
Found a timeout breaking API monitoring. Helped move the service to Fargate and added alerts, logging, and incident reports.
OmniSyncAI
May – Jul 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Built account setup, authentication, and team invitations, plus recommendations based on each company’s onboarding needs.
DAMS Lab, UMBC
Sep 2023 – present
Undergraduate Researcher
Work with Dr. Roberto Yus on privacy and distributed systems, sensor dashboards, and hands-on lessons for the SPACES smart-campus course.
Projects
Durable Guarantees
First author
Auditing whether sensitive information remains recoverable after removal, and what stronger privacy protections cost a model’s original task.
PCRL
First author
Training purpose-specific representations with privacy constraints, including checks for group-level leakage that average scores can miss.
MQTT-DAP
Co-author
Extending Mosquitto to enforce consented data uses and deletion requests inside the message broker.
PSMark
Co-author
An Erlang benchmark for comparing messaging protocols under repeatable workloads drawn from real IoT datasets.