Sam Larsen-disney
Staff Design Engineer at HuddleHive
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Larsen-disney is a Staff Design Engineer and founder with a decade of experience crafting developer-focused products and experiences at the intersection of DX, community, and product adoption. He builds elegant front-end systems and UX-driven tooling—from consumer-facing desktop apps and marketing sites to AI-powered data products—while shipping fast, polished features in startups and scale teams like Clarify and Amplitude. As an entrepreneur he founded HackathonRadar, HackathonParty, and co-founded HuddleHive to turn fragmented hackathon ecosystems into structured, repeatable adoption channels used by DevRel and ecosystem teams worldwide. He’s organized, judged, or supported 80+ hackathons globally and channels that event-first perspective into product strategies that scale developer engagement. Comfortable leading design-to-code delivery and data-informed UX, Sam pairs strong front-end craft with product instincts and a rare operational view of developer communities. Based in London, he also authors practical hackathon resources that thousands of builders use to ship better projects.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at King's College London
English
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Github Skills (62)
static-site-generator10
fastest10
graphql10
compiler10
frontend10
gatsby10
react10
gatsbyjs9
amplitude8
open-source7
user-experience7
web-development6
socket6
firebase-cloud-messaging6
firebase6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Elevating-React-Web-Development-with-Gatsby-4
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Elevating React Web Development with Gatsby 3 (published by Packt)
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 9 months
gatsbyreactpacktgatsbyjsreact-web
slarsendisney/personal-site
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:374 commits, 20 PRs, 437 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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