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
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Github Skills (200)
e2e-testing10
near10
coinbase10
windows10
testing10
test-framework10
typescript-definitions10
automation10
publish10
react-context10
appium10
stylelint10
wallet10
javascript10
test-automation-framework10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
goosewobbler/wdio-electron-service-example
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Minimal electron app providing a working example of testing using `wdio-electron-service`.
Contributions:25 commits, 15 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 months
electrontestingwdiotypescriptelectron-app
webdriverio-community/wdio-electron-service
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
WebdriverIO service for testing Electron applications
Contributions:3 releases, 78 reviews, 71 commits in 1 year 1 month
electron-applicationselectronelectronjstestingwebdriverio
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