Summary
Sam Laister is a systems developer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack and mobile applications across PHP Symfony, React/React Native, Svelte, Flutter, Ruby on Rails, Python and TypeScript. A Sheffield Computer Science graduate, he has launched three production mobile apps and driven B2B pivots and product ownership responsibilities that bridge engineering and strategy. Sam combines practical deployment and CI/CD expertise (Coolify, AWS) with client-facing problem solving from consultancy-style roles, enabling reliable, scalable releases. Now based in Sheffield and open to roles in London/Northern England, he brings a track record of shipping product features end-to-end and a dissertation that earned a higher first—evidence of both technical depth and academic rigor.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
CompSci, Computer Science, 2:1, CompSci, Computer Science, 2:1 at The University of Sheffield