Sam Burnstone
Senior Frontend Engineer At KrakenFlex at KrakenFlex (Octopus Energy Group)
Kendal, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Burnstone is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 11 years' experience building mobile and web applications for large financial institutions and nimble FinTech startups, currently driving frontend work at KrakenFlex within Octopus Energy Group. He combines deep practical skills in React/TypeScript and React Native with cross-platform mobile experience—having contributed to iOS apps in Swift and Objective-C, and automated CI/CD pipelines with Bitrise and Fastlane. At Scott Logic he owned networking layers, testing utilities and performance-focused builds, and has experience wrapping native C++ libraries for GPU-accelerated charting. Comfortable across the full frontend lifecycle, Sam also writes Node.js microservices and has hands-on AWS deployment experience. He’s known for mentoring peers, improving developer workflows, and speeding test suites—skills that quietly reduce release friction. Based in Kendal, UK, he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for shipping resilient, well-tested user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 1, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 1 at Newcastle University
Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ScottLogic/iOS10-day-by-day
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:44 commits, 30 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 months
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samburnstone/SwiftStudyGroup
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:97 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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