Sam Coward
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarSam Coward is an experienced IT professional with over 25 years building backend and platform solutions across languages from PHP and Java to Ruby and Python, and front-end/native iOS work. Currently focused on Platform Engineering and Software Supply Chains on Kubernetes, he combines deep production experience—architecture, CI/CD, testing, performance and support—with hands-on DevOps contributions to notable Cloud Foundry projects like ruby-buildpack, bosh-cli and python-buildpack. A pragmatic proponent of Extreme Programming practices, pair programming and rigorous test automation, he has improved build pipelines, dependency handling and cross-platform test stability in open-source repos. Based in the New York City area, he’s passionate about Linux and open source and spends spare time feverishly learning machine learning and exploring wearables, IoT and singularity-era ideas. His career is defined by practical systems thinking: shipping reliable, maintainable infrastructure while quietly improving developer workflows and CI hygiene.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (22)
go-modules10
objective-c10
cloud-foundry10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
cicd10
ruby10
go10
bundler10
pip10
devops10
buildpack10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cedarbdd/cedar
May 2012 - Apr 2016
BDD-style testing using Objective-C
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 130 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the testing aspects of the `cedar` repository, which is a BDD-style testing framework for Objective-C. They fixed compiler warnings by ignoring them, added `super dealloc` calls to prevent memory leaks, and merged template improvements that involved updating the `should` syntax, showing active contributions to improve the project's robustness and stability. Their work also included fixing build and simulator-related issues and updating test automation scripts, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the testing framework functions correctly across different Xcode versions and iOS simulators.
objective-cbdd-styletestingbddunit-testing
cloudfoundry/bosh-cli
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
BOSH CLI v2+
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on updating and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline for the bosh-cli project. They modified Concourse tasks to accommodate Go 1.16 changes and also implemented steps to update dependencies using `go mod`. Additionally, they made changes to the build scripts and configurations within the project. Their work directly impacted the build and testing processes within the repository.
boshcloud-foundrycloudfoundrypcfbosh-cli
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