Sam Maister
Freelance Software Engineer at Unlimited Monkeys
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Maister is a freelance full‑stack engineer with 11 years’ experience and 9+ years specialising in Node.js, known for driving high‑impact migrations and building resilient automation at scale. He’s delivered platform and developer-experience improvements at the BBC for millions of daily users, led privacy-first web3 wallet engineering at Frame Labs, and now architects cross-platform testing and automation tooling for Unlimited Monkeys. Pragmatic and language‑agnostic, he blends fast iteration with strong architectural coherence, code quality and security, often leveraging cutting‑edge AI to accelerate delivery. He’s passionate about decentralisation, privacy and the open web, and has shipped production Rust and Electron integrations as well as CI pipelines with arm64 and multiprocess support. Comfortable working autonomously or collaboratively, Sam pairs deep systems thinking with a keen eye for developer DX and pragmatic product tradeoffs. An unusual detail: his background in chemoinformatics and scientific tooling early in his career informs a data‑driven, experimental approach to engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Chemical Physics, BSc (Hons) Chemical Physics at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science (MSc) Chemoinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Chemoinformatics at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (169)
e2e-testing10
crypto-wallet10
near10
testing10
windows10
test-framework10
wdio10
typescript-definitions10
automation10
publish10
react-context10
stylelint10
javascript-api10
crypto10
wallet10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
goosewobbler/goosewobbler
Jan 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
goosewobbler/zubridge
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Cross-platform state without boundaries: Zustand-inspired simplicity
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 90 PRs in 1 year 5 months
cross-platformelectronstate-managementtaurizustand
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