Summary
Sackett Sackett is a technical lead and seasoned software engineer with 16 years building distributed systems, currently focused on leading teams at amplo after senior engineering roles at Snyk and a long tenure at Canonical. He combines hands-on system design and implementation with people leadership, having moved between individual contributor and management roles while delivering cloud and commercial systems. His background includes early work on Launchpad and cloud platforms at Canonical and NLP and educational software engineering at MetaMetrics, demonstrating comfort across backend services, web frontends, and research-driven products. Based in Frederick, Maryland, he has a passion for open source and a track record of rapidly adopting new technologies to solve complex problems. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances shipping robust distributed systems with mentoring and enabling others. An unusually broad career path—from NIH research analysis to production-grade cloud systems—gives him a strong systems-thinking perspective.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech