Sam Lucido
Product Owner at Discover
Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Lucido is an experienced product owner and technical leader with 13+ years driving reliability, modernization, and operational excellence for core financial and telecom systems. He has led cross-functional teams at Capital One and Discover to automate and standardize middleware and observability—delivering enterprise Ansible rollouts, certificate-authority integrations, and Datadog-driven monitoring for mission-critical platforms. At Dell he managed multi-cloud, edge, and database product portfolios, translating customer needs into roadmaps and production-ready architectures for Oracle and SQL Server workloads. A hands-on engineer early in his career, Sam contributed full‑stack UI work to the widely used ManageIQ open-source project, shipping cloud volume features and auth keypair interfaces in Ruby on Rails. Based in Lake Zurich, IL, he blends practical delivery with governance, audit-ready automation, and a knack for turning legacy operations into maintainable, scalable systems. He’s equally comfortable chairing stakeholder strategy sessions and diving into code or automation to unblock execution.
13 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physicology, BS Physicology at Eastern Illinois University
Github Skills (13)
manageiq10
ruby-rails10
rails10
user-interface10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
javascript8
css7
html7
openstack7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/manageiq
Nov 2015 - Jan 2020
ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:236 commits, 151 PRs, 307 comments in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily involve developing the Cloud Volume UI within the ManageIQ platform, encompassing the creation of controllers, helpers, and view components. Their work includes adding new features like Cloud Volumes, including both list and detail pages. The changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the Rails framework, specifically Ruby, as the implementation integrates with the platform's architecture and incorporates aspects like breadcrumb navigation and button handling. Additionally, the user implemented the UI related to the auth key pairs.
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ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic
Nov 2015 - Aug 2019
Classic UI of ManageIQ
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:199 commits, 69 PRs, 80 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of the Cloud Volume UI for ManageIQ's classic UI. This involved implementing both detail and list pages for Cloud Volume, including the addition of new subheadings and menu items. The user modified code across multiple files including controller, helper and presenter files, and made changes to incorporate cloud volume functionalities within the existing UI framework. The user also addressed UI issues, such as handling nil values and restoring buttons.
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