Sam Driver
Digital Resources Manager at University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Driver is a Digital Resources Manager and software engineer with 8+ years building over 60 web applications and interactive tools for The Global Health Network, supporting a community of 900,000+ members and 2 million monthly views. He blends back-end and front-end expertise (Python, R, Django/Flask, Shiny, JavaScript, SQL) with practical AI/NLP and custom ontology work to improve content discoverability for global health research, especially in the Global South. With a background in medical publishing and roles at Pharmaceutical Press and Oxford University Press, he translates complex clinical and editorial requirements into usable digital products and analytics. Sam contributes to open-source projects—including full‑stack feature work on a popular WoWAnalyzer repo—demonstrating a hands-on approach to UX and analysis beyond his health-focused portfolio. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and pairs technical depth with stakeholder-facing project management across WHO, Wellcome, Gates Funded and similar initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Merit, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Merit at Oxford Brookes UniversityBSc (Hons), Biological Sciences, BSc (Hons), Biological Sciences at University of Exeter
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
analyzer10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
performance-analysis7
css5
html5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WoWAnalyzer/WoWAnalyzer
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
WoWAnalyzer is a tool to help you analyze and improve your World of Warcraft raiding performance through various relevant metrics and gameplay suggestions.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:130 commits, 81 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of the WoWAnalyzer project by implementing new features and improvements to existing ones. Their work included adding tracking for various Feral Druid azerite traits and buffs, as well as the implementation of a checklist feature. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of front-end technologies like React and implemented relevant calculations and analysis.
luareactsuggestionswarcraftworld-of-warcraft
Anatta336/driven-decals
May 2020 - Apr 2021
A mesh-based PBR decal system for Unity's universal render pipeline.
Contributions:80 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 10 months
rendermeshpipelinepbrunity-editor
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