About

Sam McLeod

About Me

Hi I’m Sam 👋ðŸŧ

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.

Outside of work my interests include:

  • ðŸŽļ Discovering new music, especially digging into niche subgenres to find the hidden gems.
  • ðŸ‘ĻðŸŧ‍ðŸŽĪ Going to gigs.
  • ðŸ“ŧ HiFi, I’m an audio geek with lots of gear.
  • ðŸšķ‍♂ïļ Walking, often while listening to new music.
  • 📚 Reading, mostly Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction and Biographies, Audiobooks my go-to.
  • ðŸŽŪ Gaming (not too frequently though!), mostly multiplayer strategic FPS such as Hell Let Loose with friends.
  • 📚 Film and Television, especially Sci-Fi and British Comedy.
  • 🧑🏞‍ðŸ’ŧ Technology, both hardware and software engineering, IoT, and automation gadgets.
  • 🐈 Cats, especially Piper.
  • ðŸ’Ą IoT / home automation.
  • 🚗 Road trips.

Check out the Links page for some of my favourite services, tools and media.

See my Digital CV.


  • ðŸĄ Remote work and remote first organisations.
  • 🧑‍ðŸĪâ€ðŸ§‘ Building high performance platform and software delivery teams and team culture.
  • 🙋 Open communication.
  • 🎷 Music collection and discovery.
  • 🔎 Adenosine Triphosphate.
  • 💞 Needless bureaucracy.
  • 🔐 Disempowered teams.
  • ðŸĒ Working from an office.
  • 📈 Slow feedback loops.

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