Sam Mcleod
Principal (AI Engineering) at Mantel Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSam Mcleod is a Principal AI Engineering and Platform leader based in Melbourne with two decades of engineering experience and a dozen years focused on platform, DevOps and AI acceleration. He specialises in driving organisation-wide GenAI adoption and developer productivity by combining culture change, platform engineering, performance tuning and developer tooling. At Mantel Group he has progressed from platform and DevOps consulting into leading AI engineering and developer-acceleration initiatives, guiding teams to make “easy things easy and hard things possible.” Comfortable with Linux-first operations, cloud-native tooling (GCP/AWS/Kubernetes/Terraform) and CI/CD practices, he pairs technical depth with hands-on architecture and automation. A music geek and committed learner (certifications from A Cloud Guru, Puppet, Red Hat and courses in Go), he quietly blends practical engineering craft with advocacy for better developer experiences.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
sammcj/LDAP-Self-Service
Sep 2014 - Nov 2016
Web Based LDAP Self Service Portal
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
self-service-portalweb-basedportalldapservice-portal
sammcj/scripts
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
misc scripts
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 172 commits in 8 years 11 months
misc
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