Sam Bauers
Head Of Platform And Product - BrandSpace
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorSam Bauers is a seasoned technology and product leader with two decades of experience designing and delivering systems and web applications, currently heading Platform and Product for BrandSpace at Scentre Group. He blends hands-on engineering chops—with notable contributions to the ajv JSON schema validator improving hostname validation—with strategic product, solution architecture and payments expertise. Comfortable spanning innovation, UX, development and operations, Sam is known for pragmatic decisiveness: process-driven yet willing to act fast when opportunity demands. Based in Sydney, he has led teams across enterprise and consultancy environments, and now sits on the board of Ochre Education, applying his product lens to broader organisational strategy.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (16)
regular-expression10
ajv10
json-validation10
javascript10
schema-validation10
json-schema-validator10
validation10
json-schema10
wordpress6
socket-io6
nginx6
linux6
php6
svn6
redirect6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ajv-validator/ajv
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
The fastest JSON schema Validator. Supports JSON Schema draft-04/06/07/2019-09/2020-12 and JSON Type Definition (RFC8927)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions center around improving hostname validation within the Ajv validator library. They made several iterations of code changes to the `lib/compile/formats.js` file, including refining the logic for checking hostname character counts and handling trailing dots. These changes likely aimed at enhancing the robustness and efficiency of the JSON schema validation process, specifically related to the `hostname` format. The final commit integrates the changes, suggesting a focus on improving the accuracy and performance of the validation rules.
ajvschema-validatorvalidationfastestjson-schema-validator
sambauers/tailwindcss-3d
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Add 3D transforms to your TailwindCSS project
Contributions:1 release, 49 reviews, 76 commits in 1 month
tailwindtailwind-csstailwindcsstailwindcss-plugin
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