Sam Coe
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSam Coe is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years of experience building payments and fundraising systems, most recently as a Payments Application Engineer at GitHub and previously driving revenue and cost improvements at Indiegogo. He brings strong backend skills in Ruby, SQL and Java, a systems-thinking foundation from an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a curiosity for functional programming and Haskell. Sam has shipped high-impact features that drove double-digit growth in campaign fundraising and re-architected payment flows to cut operational cost and complexity. He also contributes to notable open-source projects, improving GitHub’s official CLI and automating cross-platform Actions runner images, showing an appetite for tooling and DevOps automation beyond product code. Based in Austin, he blends research-era rigor (PANDA/LLVM work at MIT Lincoln Laboratory) with pragmatic product delivery for large-scale web platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.79, Master's Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.79 at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (27)
github-cli10
github-ci10
scripting10
bash10
build-system10
cicd10
release-management10
automation10
go10
build-tools10
automations10
githubaction-workflow10
strings9
windows9
text-manipulation9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1271 reviews, 352 commits, 851 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions focused on improving the GitHub CLI's functionality. They removed references to a feedback form, preventing HTML escaping in the repository view output, and calculated string display width. Additionally, they expanded the help topic functionality to include environment variables. These changes indicate work with the core CLI features and its rendering of data.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
actions/runner-images
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
GitHub Actions runner images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions primarily focus on automating and improving the GitHub Actions runner images used in the repository. They modified scripts to install and configure tools within the images, including updating the gh CLI installation process to use official release assets. The changes span multiple operating systems, including macOS and Windows, demonstrating a cross-platform focus on automation and build processes. The user's commits also involved updating helper scripts for common tasks, highlighting efforts to improve the overall build environment.
actions-runnerci-cdgithub-actions-runnerrunnercicd
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