Sam Fold
Executive In Residence (EIR) at Victorprep English Vocab Podcast
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Fold is an engineering leader and Executive in Residence at Accel with 11 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and scaling engineering organizations from early product stages to thousands of employees. He has led large platform teams across Data, ML, DevOps, and Developer Productivity at Checkout.com and built Blizzard’s first production ML pipeline, moving systems from batch Hadoop to real-time Flink streaming. A hands-on technologist with an AI degree, Sam pairs deep technical craftsmanship—performance tuning, caching, and reliability—with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and shaping engineering culture. He champions compassionate, transparent leadership and designs developer-focused platforms where engineers are treated as discerning customers. Outside work he produces a popular English vocabulary podcast with hundreds of thousands of downloads, reflecting a passion for teaching and clear communication.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bradford Grammar SchoolBSc Hons 2.1, Artificial Intelligence, BSc Hons 2.1, Artificial Intelligence at Durham University
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Github Skills (24)
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dotnet8
ai-agent8
csharp7
llm7
3d7
monogame6
serilog6
game-development5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SamFold/Mcp.Net
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
A fully featured C# implementation of Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
anthropiccsharpagentsai-toolsdotnet
SamFold/tech-notes
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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