Sam Gavinio
Software Engineering - Infrastructure at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Gavinio is a cloud-focused software engineer and infrastructure architect with 11 years’ experience building scalable, highly available distributed systems using Go, Ruby, PHP, Node, Docker, Redis, Kafka and Kubernetes. Currently shaping infrastructure at Canva after helping enterprises across ASEAN as an AWS Professional Services cloud architect, he blends hands-on engineering with governance, security and operationalization expertise. Sam has a strong full‑stack background—shipping client-side apps in React/Vue/Angular and back-end microservices—and has practical experience dockerizing and running services on Kubernetes. He contributes to notable open-source work such as improvements to Zendesk’s official PHP API client, showing attention to API clarity and long‑term maintainability. Colleagues know him for translating C‑level strategy into implementable cloud designs while staying close to the code.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at De La Salle University
Filipino, English
Github Skills (6)
php10
zendesk-api10
api10
apidoc10
documentation10
rest-api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/zendesk_api_client_php
Jul 2016 - Jan 2018
Official Zendesk API v2 client library for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 52 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the Zendesk API client library for PHP. Their contributions involved fixing incorrect method suggestions and return types in the docblocks, enhancing code clarity and maintainability. They added missing method docblocks and updated the documentation, ensuring the accuracy of the API client's interface. Furthermore, the user implemented a new resource for embeddable config sets.
api-clientapiclient-libraryphpzendesk
samgavinio/reactjs-getting-started
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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