Sam Perozek

Senior Consultant (Oct 2024 — Present) · Consultant (Dec 2022 — Oct 2024)
Department of Homeland Security — Digital Innovation and Development

• Design and maintain mission-critical Rails applications across four DHS programs, partnering with product, design, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Led the modernization of an aging RSpec test suite, establishing team-wide patterns for unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Built and maintain an in-house Rails engine that standardizes and ships reusable UI components across five federal applications.
• Designed a reusable subnavigation component using the Lit framework for plug-and-play adoption across DIDiT applications.
• Redesigned seed data structures to make development environments more reliable and onboarding faster.
• Migrated development workflows to Docker; supported application transitions from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to AWS EKS.
• Recognized with multiple department-wide awards for feature impact, performance, and stability improvements.

Compliance Engineer

Directed PHMSA-regulated audits across field operations and corporate records, producing only two findings; built internal automation tools to improve accuracy of mandatory regulatory reporting.

Founder / Owner

Built and operated a services business achieving top 5% sales performance among 80+ franchisees with $332K first-year revenue at 65% gross margin.

Project Manager — SLC International Airport

Managed subcontractor delivery for major airport expansion work, coordinating electrical, security, and conveyance systems under accelerated timelines.

Project Engineer / Engineering Lead

Led cross-functional engineering teams on $30M+ capital projects; recognized with ExxonMobil's REAL award for ~$3M/year in cost-saving innovation; stewarded CAPEX/OPEX budgets and zero-incident safety performance across ~20,000 work hours.