Sam Martin
Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Martin is a Systems Development Engineer at AWS with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure across enterprise and startup environments. He’s delivered large-scale DevOps and cloud migration work at organisations including HSBC, SDL and Euromoney, and led teams running hundreds of servers across private cloud, AWS and Azure. A pragmatic engineer who blends automation (Chef, Docker, TeamCity, Elastic Beanstalk) with strong incident ownership, Sam has also contributed reliability and error-handling fixes to the widely used awslabs/aws-config-rules repository. Based in England, he combines deep operational expertise with developer-facing tooling sensibilities, enabling teams to ship safer infrastructure. His background in philosophy hints at a methodical, analytical approach to problem solving beyond purely technical skills.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
aws-config10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
nodejs10
javascript9
python9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
s3-bucket9
serverless9
linear-gradient6
html6
internet-explorer6
mousewheel6
dom-events6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-config-rules
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
[Node, Python, Java] Repository of sample Custom Rules for AWS Config.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 1 comment in 7 days
Contributions summary:Sam made multiple contributions focused on improving the reliability and functionality of AWS Config rules. Their work included addressing issues related to error handling and resource deletion within the Python-based rules. They also focused on improving the Node.js based rules, fixing issues related to bucket region retrieval to ensure the rules work correctly within all AWS regions and adding error handling to prevent silent failures.
aws-configjavapython
talkvegantome/talkvegan-app
May 2019 - Oct 2019
The react-native app that's behind TalkVeganToMe
Contributions:28 PRs, 184 pushes, 23 branches in 5 months
react-nativenative-appreactreact-native-app
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