Sam Betts
Engineering Technical Lead (Outshift By Cisco)
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Betts is an Engineering Technical Lead with 13+ years building cloud-native platforms and driving Kubernetes and OpenStack integrations at Cisco, currently leading development on Panoptica and the OpenClarity runtime scanning tools. He combines hands-on backend engineering, CI/CD automation, and security-focused feature work—spanning vulnerability, supply chain, network and API security—with team leadership and cross-team integration. A long-time OpenStack contributor and Ironic core reviewer, he has a track record of improving test quality and performance in high-profile open-source projects like Neutron and Horizon. Based in Canterbury, he pairs production-grade engineering with a penchant for refactoring brittle tests and removing inefficiencies, which has repeatedly accelerated delivery and maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science, Business and Management, Physics, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Mathematics, International Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science, Business and Management, Physics, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Mathematics at Barton Court Grammar SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st at University of Kent
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
debug10
python10
testing10
n10
openstack10
openstack-neutron10
service-design10
service-provider10
test-automation10
apidoc9
django9
api9
refactoring9
sql-database8
sql8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/horizon
Aug 2014 - Sep 2015
OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the OpenStack Horizon dashboard, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. Their work involved refactoring code to improve the user interface, specifically addressing issues related to preloading tabs and ensuring correct display of information in the UI. They also worked on fixing form attributes to address autocompletion problems, and enhanced the code to improve the display of instance details. The user's changes modified the code to include more accurate and human-readable display of administrative state choices.
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openstack/neutron
Aug 2014 - Jan 2017
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the OpenStack Neutron codebase. Their contributions include bug fixes, such as correcting indentation and resolving issues related to predictable ordering in tests, particularly in the `test_api_v2.py` file. They also addressed database request inefficiencies by removing redundant calls and refactoring code for improved performance. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of testing methodologies, modifying tests and ensuring code correctness within the framework.
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