Sam Jones
Scala Developer II at Sky
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Jones is a backend software engineer with 9 years' experience, currently a Scala Developer II at Sky (NBCU) specialising in Typelevel functional Scala for high-throughput, low-latency microservices. He owns a core orchestration service that assembles recommendation rails across Peacock, Sky TV and Showmax, driving SLOs and on-call reliability while tuning JVM performance to cut p99s dramatically under million-entity workloads. Skilled in Kafka event streaming, Cassandra persistence, Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) operations, Istio traffic policies and OpenTelemetry, he focuses on observability and distributed-systems robustness. Sam migrated production services from Akka to Cats Effect/FS2/Tapir to improve maintainability and implemented progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts. Based in London, he pivoted into software from project management and builds hardware-software projects in his spare time, including SugarSentry — an ESP32-based real-time blood glucose visualiser.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Psychology 2:1, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Psychology 2:1 at University of PortsmouthA levels Maths English and Psychology, A levels Maths English and Psychology at Esher college
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Github Skills (75)
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amazon9
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telegram8
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azerothcore7
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sam0jones0/scalaPractice
Jan 2023 - Mar 2026
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
sam0jones0/dotfiles
May 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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