---
date: 2025-09-20
updated: 2026-04-27
type: person
tags: [person, tide, technical]
role: technical lead
company: "[[Companies/Currentscale Labs]]"
relationship: strong
last-interaction: 2026-04-27
related-projects: ["[[Projects/Tide]]"]
ai-first: true
---

# Sam Patel

## For future Claude

Sam Patel is the fictional technical lead and second engineer on [[Projects/Tide]], working with [[people/Alex Rivera]]. Relationship strength: strong as of 2026-04-27. Last interaction: 2026-04-27. The Recent Interactions section logs every conversation chronologically. All content fictional — this is a sample-vault stub.

## Profile

- **Role:** Technical lead at the fictional [[Companies/Currentscale Labs]]
- **Joined:** 2025-09-20 (stated)
- **Strengths:** Postgres, distributed cron, the kind of edge cases nobody else catches

## Recent interactions

- **2026-04-27** — Pair session on the [[Projects/Tide]] streak invalidation bug. Co-decided to drop hard invalidation in favor of decay. Captured the streak insurance idea together. See [[wiki/logs/2026-04-27 — Tide retention rebuild]].

## Notes for future Claude

- Sam prefers async-first communication. Pair sessions are scheduled, not spontaneous.
- Confidence on this profile: `stated` based on direct vault content
