Summary
Sam Marx is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with 10+ years building resilient, scalable SaaS platforms and leading large DevOps and SRE transformations. Currently VP Cloud Engineering at HireVue, he has driven platform scalability, developer experience, and observability across high-growth environments—from doubling user bases at Schoology/PowerSchool to modernizing CI/CD and Kubernetes at Spredfast and DISCO. He blends strong architecture and design chops with a focus on culture, enablement, and measurable accountability, favoring tooling that makes the right choice the easy choice. A hands-on technologist and FLOSS-minded engineer/designer, he pairs practical operational rigor with product sensibility and mentorship of empowered teams. Based in Austin, he’s known for turning fragmented support organizations into cohesive delivery engines and scaling systems reliably under rapid growth.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Austin Community College