Summary
Rory Sametz is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of professional experience building high-performance full-stack systems, currently at Retool after several years shaping web services and user experiences at Amazon Music. He routinely ships production React applications seen by millions and brings deep backend expertise in Java, Python, and TypeScript alongside extensive AWS experience (Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, Athena, S3, API Gateway, and more). Rory pairs a bias for action with high engineering standards—setting up monitoring, improving DevOps, and addressing codebase pain points to raise team reliability. Obsessed with customer experience, he focuses on trust and measurable impact rather than feature flash, and his mechanical engineering background gives him a methodical, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Mechanical Engineering, BSc Mechanical Engineering at University of Alberta
Computer Science, Computer Science at Hack Reactor
English, French