Sam Calder-mason
DevOps Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Calder-mason is a DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tools, currently supporting Ethereum Foundation operations from Queensland, Australia. He has progressed from full-stack development to cloud engineering roles at Entain and now focuses on scalable, secure deployments and automation in blockchain-adjacent environments. His open-source work includes full-stack contributions to SyncLounge—improving UX and playback sync performance—illustrating his ability to bridge frontend improvements with backend reliability. Comfortable in high-availability production settings, he brings practical performance tuning and client-server optimization experience to platform reliability and developer experience efforts. Unusually, his background includes stage technology and even refereeing, hinting at a practical, team-oriented problem solver who thrives under live-pressure situations.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of NewcastleSt. Philips Christian College
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
front-end-development9
html9
css9
react8
ui-design8
back-end-development7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
synclounge/synclounge
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
Enjoy Plex with your friends. In Sync. Together.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 36 reviews, 642 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the "synclounge/synclounge" repository, a project that enables users to enjoy Plex together. Their contributions involved both frontend UI changes, such as the addition of a text input box, and backend logic additions and modifications for managing and syncing playback features. These changes were coupled with code modifications, including performance optimizations of the client-server interactions for a smoother user experience.
syncplex
ethpandaops/ethwallclock
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
An Ethereum Wallclock Go package
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
golanggo-packagegethswarmethereum
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