Sam Jones
Director, Engineering Practices at TELUS Digital
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSam Jones is a Director of Engineering Practices with over a decade of hands-on software experience and a long personal history of shipping backend systems, RESTful APIs, and platform migrations across Java, .NET, Go, and cloud environments. He specializes in turning struggling delivery models into automated, resilient pipelines—introducing version control, CI/CD, GitOps, and automated UI testing to teams that previously lacked them. Sam blends engineering rigor with people leadership, advocating trunk-based development, feature toggles, and built-in quality to reduce risk and improve team morale. His recent work spans Kubernetes, Flux, and cloud-native billing and transaction systems, plus zero-downtime database migrations between vendors. A pragmatic engineer at heart, he won’t trust untested code and has repeatedly stepped into tech-lead and interim PM roles to ship critical projects. Based in Charlottesville, he’s also a dad and an active Bitcoiner, bringing curious, systems-minded thinking to organizational change.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Mary Washington
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Github Skills (163)
bitcoin-core10
ruby10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
linux10
azure10
staging10
bitcoin10
macos10
package-manager10
homebrew10
cryptography10
aws-ecs10
byte9
amazon-ecs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sugarjig/homebrew-core
Aug 2017 - Jan 2025
🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS
Contributions:86 pushes, 50 branches in 7 years 6 months
macosformulaepackage-managermissing
sugarjig/bitcoin-resources
May 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 173 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 8 months
cryptocurrencylinksbitcoin
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