Sam Clinckspoor
Founder at Dockt
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Clinckspoor is a founder and seasoned cloud-native engineer with 11 years building scalable infrastructure and data platforms, most recently leading Nike’s Databricks rollout to 10,000+ users and delivering >$2M in recurring cost savings. He combines hands-on backend and cloud engineering (contributing to notable open-source projects like Terraform) with product-level ownership—designing governance, SLAs/SLOs, and migration strategies for mission-critical systems. Sam has a track record of turning brittle legacy stacks into reliable, repeatable platforms for large enterprises and startups alike, and he’s launched multiple ventures focused on document verification and infrastructure automation. Based in Antwerp, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with entrepreneurial grit and a taste for the "boring" but essential problems that keep systems trustworthy in production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Toegepaste Informatica, Toegepaste Informatica at Karel de Grote-HogeschoolDesign & Development, Design & Development at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Dutch, English
Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
aws10
elasticache10
terraform10
testing10
aac9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the AWS Elasticache parameter group functionality within the Terraform provider. Their work involved creating the necessary resource definitions, adding the core logic for parameter group creation, updates, and deletion. They also added tests to validate the parameter group implementation and made code changes to the structure and documentation.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
skyscrapers/terraform-vpc
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Create a Amazon AWS VPC
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
vpctest-kitchenamazonaws-vpcamazon-aws
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