Sam Ardrey
Full Stack Engineer II at Hinge Health
West Coast, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Ardrey is a Full Stack Engineer II with seven years of experience building performant web applications, currently contributing to Hinge Health after a multi-year product and platform role at Ontra (formerly InCloudCounsel). Comfortable across Rails, Ember, and the full stack, Sam helped ship products from pre-beta to public launch while cutting page load times up to 26% by introducing JSON:API serializers and integrating Datadog for ongoing performance insights. An active open-source contributor and former Sidekiq mentee, he’s improved test suites and documentation for one of Ruby’s most widely used background job libraries. Sam’s background in commercial photography and imaging automation gives him a practical edge in automation, tooling, and debugging at scale—skills he previously leveraged to save thousands per day in production settings. Based on the West Coast, he blends hands-on engineering with a collaborative, improvement-driven approach and a knack for turning operational problems into durable engineering solutions.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Commercial Photography, Commercial Photography at Brooks InstituteSoftware Development, Software Development at App Academy
Github Skills (13)
testing10
background-processing10
job-search10
background-task10
jobservice10
background-worker10
background-process10
sidekiq10
test-automation10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
documentation8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq/sidekiq
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Simple, efficient background processing for Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on updating and refactoring existing test files within the Sidekiq project, converting them to use `describe` and `it` blocks. They modified test files related to logging, CSRF protection, and job handling, adapting them to the new testing style. Additionally, the user made changes related to code coverage and documentation.
background-jobsrubysidekiqjrubyjobs
SamArdrey/Anagram
Feb 2019 - Jun 2019
Rails Instagram Clone
Contributions:92 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 months
ruby-on-railsrailsinstagram-railsinstagraminstagram-clone
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