Sam Giffney
Director at Zenbu AD Pty Ltd
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Giffney is a seasoned technology leader and Director with over 15 years of professional experience and more than 20 years building enterprise web applications, teams, and organisations from Sydney. He has held senior roles including CIO and CISO at ReadyTech and has led technology and architecture at JobReady, combining hands-on software craft with security and operational leadership. As founder of Zenbu AD, he consults on pragmatic, automated solutions that prioritise simplicity, security, and scalability. Sam’s background spans product-facing engineering, technical leadership, and general management across international markets, reflecting an ability to translate complex business needs into reliable systems. Colleagues know him for pairing a developer’s attention to detail with an executive’s strategic perspective, and for preferring the best-fit technology rather than the latest trend.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Auckland
Stackoverflow
3,082reputation
1.2mreached
37answers
7questions
solr
top-5%
ruby-on-rails
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
test-kitchen10
devise10
authentication10
coverage10
ubuntu10
duplicates10
ruby-client10
ansible-role10
test-coverage10
headless-browser10
geocoding10
phantomjs10
geofencing10
rbenv10
buildkite10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rdytech/moodle-rb
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Moodle Ruby Client
Contributions:6 reviews, 37 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years
test-kitchenruby-clientrubydry-rbduplicates
rdytech/thunderzippy
Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
Secure streaming zipped download bundles
Contributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 4 months
securebundlesstreaming
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