Sam Meech-ward
DevRel Engineer at Supabase
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Meech-Ward is a DevRel engineer and seasoned educator with 11 years of hands-on experience building iOS and web software and teaching others to do the same. Based in Vancouver, he has led curriculum development and instruction at Lighthouse Labs and BCIT, progressing to program head and faculty roles while also freelancing and founding app-focused startups that amassed millions of downloads. His engineering work spans front-end and back-end domains, including contributions to open-source projects like drizzle-orm where he improved SQLite boolean handling and strengthened integration tests. Sam combines classroom pedagogy with practical product experience—shipping apps across iOS, Android, Mac and Chrome stores—so he can translate complex systems into teachable, testable components. Now at Supabase in DevRel, he bridges developer needs and platform capabilities, focusing on reliable tooling and clear developer journeys. Collected experience as an instructor, mentor, test automation engineer and founder gives him a rare mix of curriculum design, QA rigor, and production engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Web Design and Development, BSC Web Design and Development at Full Sail University
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Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
javascript10
sqlite10
testing10
typescript10
chai10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
schema-design9
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
sql8
coreanimation6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/vampr-js
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sam's primary contribution involved writing and implementing tests for the `vampire.js` class, focusing on methods related to offspring, seniority, and common ancestors. They created tests using the Chai assertion library, demonstrating proficiency in unit testing principles. Additionally, the user added tests for traversal methods demonstrating the ability to test different parts of the application.
drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
May 2023 - Dec 2023
Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too 😅
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 PR, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the drizzle-orm project by modifying the core codebase, specifically focusing on database boolean type handling within SQLite. Their changes included adding a boolean mode to the test users table and implementing logic to return true only when the boolean value equals 1. Furthermore, they updated integration tests to reflect these changes. These modifications demonstrate an understanding of database interactions and testing practices within the ORM.
deno-deploymysqlsqlsqlite3sqlite
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