Summary
Sam Grace is a Full Stack Engineer with 13 years of experience building production web and backend systems, currently exploring the Effect ecosystem with TypeScript while working at Gett in Warsaw. He has led front-end teams and shipped full-stack features at companies like Festicket and Papercup, where he worked across TypeScript, Go, React, Node, GraphQL, Prisma, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS services. Sam combines product-facing UI craft with backend reliability—experience that spans storybook-driven component work, distributed job orchestration (Temporal), and scalable services. He has a software engineering honours degree from the University of Auckland and an early background in iOS and automation testing, which informs a pragmatic, test-aware approach. Colleagues would note his breadth from legacy Angular and Backbone codebases up to modern cloud-native stacks, and his curiosity for functional-effect patterns in TypeScript.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering (Honours), Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering (Honours) at The University of Auckland
Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts Screen Arts, Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts Screen Arts at Unitec