About Me

Hi I’m Sam 👋🏻

I’m a principal AI & platform engineer, open source advocate and contributor.

I’ve been in tech for 20~ years across platform, software, AI in technical leadership roles. The past 5 years I’ve been heavily focused on LLM and AI technologies.

Currently working with Mantel Group (Melbourne, Australia) leading enablement and acceleration of software engineering with AI.

🎉 Remote Work

I made it a career goal to be 100% remote which came to fruition through covid - and I will never go back to working from an office.

The gains to my health, happiness and productivity have been immense and my position is that any employer that doesn’t recognise and value this is not an employer I want to work for.

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

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Interests

Outside of work my interests include:

  • 🎸 Discovering new music, especially digging into niche subgenres to find the hidden gems.
  • 👨🏻‍🎤 Going to gigs.
  • 📻 HiFi, I’m an audio geek with lots of gear.
  • 🚶‍♂️ Walking in nature (often while listening to new music!).
  • 🦾 Researching AI, LLMs tooling, development and performance engineering.
  • 📚 Reading, mostly Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction and Biographies, Audiobooks are my go-to.
  • 📺 Film and Television, especially Sci-Fi and British Comedy.
  • 🧑🏼‍💻 Technology, both hardware and software engineering, IoT, and automation gadgets.
  • 🐈 Cats, especially Piper.
  • 💡 IoT / home automation.
  • 🚗 Road trips and automotive engineering.

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

Work

See my Digital CV.

🔋 Things that give me energy

  • 🏡 Remote work and remote first organisations.
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Building high performance platform and software delivery teams and team culture.
  • 🙋 Open communication.
  • 🎷 Music collection and discovery.
  • 🔬 Adenosine Triphosphate.

🪫 Things that drain my energy

  • 🏢 Working from an office.
  • 💼 Bureaucracy.
  • 🔐 Disempowered teams.
  • 📈 Slow feedback loops.

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