Sam Birney has played a number of roles from Engineering Manager to Project Manager for the Al Majmoua deployment.  As a volunteer, he's helped to fix bugs and answer questions on the mailing list to keep Mifos code at its highest quality. 

Sam Birney - San Francisco, CA

After graduating from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in Computer Science, Sam worked as a software developer and architect for various Silicon Valley startups. He was a cofounder of Merced Systems and managed engineering teams and software releases there as Director of Technology.  He became interested in Open Source and joined JasperSoft, working on Business Intelligence software.  From there, looking to find a socially meaningful application for his skills, he joined Grameen Foundation as Engineering Manager of Mifos.  After working full time on the Mifos product for a while, he ended up becoming a contractor, which brought him to his current project of deploying Mifos at an MFI in Lebanon.