Craig Sampson
EXCO MEMBER OF CONVOCATION -Alumni Affairs at Safety io
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Sampson is a people-focused Full Stack Engineer and R&D site leader with over 20 years of engineering experience and a BSc Honours in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. He runs a South African R&D site and directs cross-functional teams to deliver hardware-software products—ranging from gas detectors and controllers to protocol gateways and cloud-connected applications. His background includes deep embedded-systems work (C/C++) and porting network drivers to modern RTOS and uCLinux, combined with practical field support experience from urban transport systems. As Site Manager and Managing Director at Safety io and a long-tenured engineer at Sierra Monitor, he blends hands-on technical delivery with operational and people leadership. Active in alumni affairs as an EXCO member, he brings both community engagement and product-centric R&D perspective to technical leadership roles. Notably, he pairs industrial embedded expertise with cloud connectivity experience, making him effective at bridging legacy hardware constraints and modern IoT/cloud solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electrical Engineer, BSc, Electrical Engineer at University of the WitwatersrandBryanston high school
Github Skills (27)
java9
aws9
sdk9
php9
cpp8
python8
dotnet8
aws-sdk8
ruby8
javascript8
ws7
rfc7
documentation7
go6
nodejs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
csampsonza/lua-kickstart.nvim
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
happner/happner-suite
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:29 reviews, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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