Clement Sam
Senior Software Engineer at Bitnob
Ghana
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Top SchoolClement Sam is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Bitnob after a multi-year tenure at Storj. He specializes in Go and distributed storage and has contributed to high-profile open-source projects—most notably creating GLab, the GitLab CLI that was adopted as GitLab’s official tool, and improving the go-gitlab SDK. Comfortable across the full stack, his work spans satellite and storagenode features, API integrations, and CI/lint improvements that ensure fidelity between services and SDKs. Based in Ghana, he combines hands-on engineering with knowledge-sharing and community leadership (GitLab Hero), often focusing on pragmatic solutions that scale. Colleagues know him for shipping reliable features in complex, decentralized systems while mentoring others and continuously leveling up his craft.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa
English, French
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Github Skills (34)
git10
gitlab-api10
command-line-interface10
distributed-systems10
go10
command-line10
issue-tracking10
cli10
go-language9
api-design9
restful-api9
develop9
object-storage9
api-rest9
sdk9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
profclems/glab
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
The GitLab CLI tool. Archived: now officially adopted by GitLab as the official CLI tool and maintained at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli. See https://github.com/profclems/glab/issues/983
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 396 reviews, 932 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Clement was involved in the development of the GitLab CLI tool, contributing to both backend and frontend aspects. The commits show the implementation of functionality, including issue creation, merge request management (rebase, labels, etc), and access to GitLab's API. Their work demonstrates a strong understanding of the project's goals and the integration of the CLI tool with the GitLab platform.
golanggitlab-apigitlab-ciglab-cligitlab-cli
storj/storj
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 reviews, 126 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Clement primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Storj project, focusing on the satellite and storagenode components. Their work involved modifying order-related functionality, including setting expiration dates for orders, adding methods for managing pieces, and ensuring the creation of the 'created_at' column. The user also added functionalities in the multinode and adjusted the QUIC configuration.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
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