Summary
Sam Barnes is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years' experience building production web applications across React, Python (Flask/FastAPI), and SQL-backed systems. He shifts comfortably between architecting backends and crafting intuitive frontends, with additional fluency in PHP/Laravel, Node/Express, and CMS platforms like WordPress and Shopify. As a founding engineer at ODITI he led React front-end development and pivoted the product into Shopify e‑commerce, building custom themes, apps and APIs—demonstrating both product-led thinking and hands-on delivery. Sam prefers fast, agile workflows that balance rapid shipping with clean, maintainable code and takes ownership across the full development cycle from DB design to deployment. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs academic grounding from the University of Leeds with practical startup experience and a knack for turning prototypes into robust, customer-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc with year in Industry Computer Science, Computer Science BSc with year in Industry Computer Science at University of Leeds
Extended Diploma in IT (Software Development) Information Technology, Extended Diploma in IT (Software Development) Information Technology at Richard Huish College
Wadham School