Sam Beckett
Principal Software Engineer at Mastercard
Riverside, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Beckett is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms and developer tooling, currently leading platform efforts at Mastercard. He specializes in improving developer experience through self-service and open-source tools, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Apache Kafka, and CI/CD systems like Jenkins. Rapidly promoted through platform and cloud roles at O.C. Tanner into leadership at Mastercard, he combines pragmatic platform engineering with a strong focus on agile iteration and developer productivity. Based in Riverside, CA, Sam brings a practical history of running hybrid PaaS (Akkeris) and accelerating teams to ship features faster, often by automating common infrastructure workflows.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (76)
api9
cli-application9
rest-api9
rest8
command-line-tool8
signature-verification8
notary8
region8
signature8
integrity8
controller7
security7
plex7
microservices7
proxies7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
akkeris/tools
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Collection of scripts and tooling for developing on akkeris.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 3 months
redisdevelopingtooling
sbeck14/crasher
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Docker image that crashes after a wait period
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
waitdocker-imagedockerperiodcrashes
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