Sam Clark is a Digital Director based in Melbourne with 16 years’ experience blending graphic design, web development and technical consulting to deliver award-winning digital and event productions. He leads a specialist agency, Astronaut Digital, providing end-to-end services from branding and responsive web builds to SEO, hosting and media buying, and previously ran full-service event production through Q32 Productions. Sam brings hands-on engineering chops too—contributing backend and DevOps work to open-source projects like Armada, automating protobuf builds and improving Kubernetes event tracking. Equally comfortable in creative and technical roles, he has a track record of implementing workflows and systems that boost efficiency under tight deadlines. With a BSc in Psychology, he combines analytical insight with a curious, self-directed approach to problem solving that helps translate complex requirements into practical, client-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Psychology at University of Otago
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), Levels 1, 2 & 3, National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), Levels 1, 2 & 3 at Christ's College, Canterbury
A multi-cluster batch queuing system for high-throughput workloads on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:2 releases, 78 reviews, 23 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam focused on automating the generation of protobuf files using Docker, demonstrating expertise in build processes and tooling. They implemented changes to expose Kubernetes IDs in relevant events, likely for improved job tracking and monitoring. Further contributions involved merging branches and integrating changes to the event system. This suggests a focus on both backend development and operational aspects of the Armada project.
Browser extension for the http://pinboard.in bookmarking service
Contributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 25 pushes in 9 years 4 months
firefoxbrowserchromefirefox-extensionbookmarking
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