Sam De Vries
Tech Lead at Lepaya
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSam De Vries is a tech lead and hands-on full-stack engineer based in Amsterdam with over a decade of experience turning ideas into production-quality software across startups and scale-ups. He excels at end-to-end delivery—designing APIs and microservices, modernizing legacy systems, and shipping front-end experiences with React and React Native—while coaching teams to adopt agile practices. Sam treats code as craftsmanship: test-backed, readable, and intentionally replaceable to keep systems adaptable and maintainable. His background spans founding roles, lead developer stints building carrier-integrated shipping platforms, and scaling product teams at Lepaya and uButler, highlighting both entrepreneurial grit and operational discipline. Colleagues value him for lifting team capability as much as for his technical depth and pragmatic approach to architecture.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication and Multimedia Design, Bachelor's degree Communication and Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (34)
laravel10
php10
specification9
api-specification9
api9
carrier9
docker8
laravel-framework8
npm8
golang8
nodejs7
javascript7
swagger7
openapi7
cli6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SAMDevelopment/laraduck
Aug 2017 - Mar 2021
A simple Docker container for php applications
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 8 PRs in 3 years 7 months
docker-imagephpphp-applicationsdockerdocker-container
SAMDevelopment/temp
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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