About Me
Hi I’m Sam ððŧ
I’m a 1x Engineer in the Platform/Automation/DevOps space, Open Source advocate and community maintainer.
Currently working as a Platform Engineering Lead at DigIO in Melbourne, Australia.
This site is my tech blog, a place to share my thoughts and ideas (mainly relating to engineering), and a place to keep track of things I’ve learned.
Contact
- ð Mastodon
- ð§âðŧ Github
- ðĶĪ Twitter Archive
- ðĶ Twitter
- ð LinkedIn
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Interests
Outside of work my interests include:
- ðļ Discovering new music, especially digging into niche subgenres to find the hidden gems.
- ðĻðŧâðĪ Going to gigs.
- ðŧ HiFi, I’m an audio geek with lots of gear.
- ðķââïļ Walking, often while listening to new music.
- ð Reading, mostly Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction and Biographies, Audiobooks my go-to.
- ðŪ Gaming (not too frequently though!), mostly multiplayer strategic FPS such as Hell Let Loose with friends.
- ðš Film and Television, especially Sci-Fi and British Comedy.
- ð§ðžâðŧ Technology, both hardware and software engineering, IoT, and automation gadgets.
- ð Cats, especially Piper.
- ðĄ IoT / home automation.
- ð Road trips.
Check out the Links page for some of my favourite services, tools and media.
Work
See my Digital CV.
ð Things that give me energy
- ðĄ Remote work and remote first organisations.
- ð§âðĪâð§ Building high performance platform and software delivery teams and team culture.
- ð Open communication.
- ð· Music collection and discovery.
- ðŽ Adenosine Triphosphate.
ðŠŦ Things that drain my energy
- ðž Needless bureaucracy.
- ð Disempowered teams.
- ðĒ Working from an office.
- ð Slow feedback loops.
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