Sam Clements
Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Reading, England, United States
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Top SchoolSam Clements is a DevOps and platform engineer with 13 years' experience building CI/CD, monitoring, and developer tooling that take code from commit to production across cloud-native environments. He combines deep Python and Rust development skills with hands-on Kubernetes, Docker, Vault and GitLab/ArgoCD operations to deliver secure, automated pipelines and internal developer platforms. At companies from startups to Akamai he has rebuilt APIs, packaged tooling for multiple Linux distributions, and shipped credential and service-to-service authentication systems that materially reduced operational risk. An active open-source contributor, Sam has contributed to notable projects such as the rust-protobuf implementation, helping keep it aligned with evolving Rust toolchains. He prefers roles that focus on developer productivity and platform engineering rather than pure ops or QA, and brings a practical security mindset (Vault, IAM, SealedSecrets) to every project. Based in Reading, UK, he enjoys turning complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, well-documented tools that speed release cycles.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Open Source Computing, Bachelor’s Degree, Open Source Computing at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
English
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Github Skills (16)
data-serialization10
code-generation10
rust10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
toolchain10
serialization10
python9
argparse9
json6
javascript6
chef-infra6
requirejs6
rust-cargo6
ruby6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
stepancheg/rust-protobuf
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Rust implementation of Google protocol buffers
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the `rust-protobuf` repository by implementing changes related to code generation, feature enabling, and rustup updates. They focused on renaming methods, fixing compilation errors, and cleaning up warnings. The user also updated features and dependencies to align with changes in the Rust toolchain.
protocol-buffersrustprotobufserialization
borntyping/spotter
Apr 2013 - Mar 2018
A command line tool for watching files and running shell commands when they change
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 11 months
command-line-toolshellpythonspotter
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