Sam Costigan
Te Whata Developer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolSam Costigan is a web-focused software developer with 11 years of professional experience, currently building digital solutions as a Te Whata Developer at Te Kāhui Raraunga in Wellington. He has a steady track record across startups and scale-ups—from web development roles beginning in 2012 to senior full-stack positions at Octave and HospoConnect—bringing practical end-to-end expertise in shipping user-facing and backend features. A Victoria University computer science graduate with a diploma in web development, Sam enjoys tackling problems that require reading, experimentation, and creative Googling, and treats engineering as both craft and puzzle. Outside work he channels the same curiosity into strategy games, Dungeons & Dragons, painting miniatures, and outdoors pursuits like hiking and slacklining, which keeps his thinking playful and grounded.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Web Development, Diploma of Web Development at ACG YOOBEE School of DesignBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (28)
cms10
python10
django10
user-experience10
flexibility10
content-management9
wagtail9
django-admin8
content-management-system8
django-views6
operator6
django-forms6
delimiter6
database5
xml5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
The-Team-Awesome/Zompocalypse
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:203 commits, 172 pushes, 4 branches in 29 days
octavenz/wagtailextraicons
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Add extra icons to your Wagtail project
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 26 commits in 1 year 3 months
djangoiconswagtail
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