Sam Milledge
Cabbage Farmer at Self-employed
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Milledge is a pragmatic front-end and back-end engineer with 13 years of experience building web applications and APIs, now balancing software work with running a cabbage farm in Queensland. He spent substantial time delivering production front-end features at Jumbo Interactive and Josephmark and has hands-on experience improving backend systems through contributions to Directus—fixing GraphQL/HTTP edge cases, optimizing caching, and refining SDK and CLI behaviors. Sam’s blend of visual/interactive design training and IT degrees gives him a rare combination of product-focused UX sensibility and backend reliability. Based in Australia, he’s comfortable shipping practical fixes across the stack and quietly improving developer tooling and API robustness.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology / Bachelor of Creative Industries Web Technologies / Visual & Interactive Design, Bachelor of Information Technology / Bachelor of Creative Industries Web Technologies / Visual & Interactive Design at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English
Github Skills (17)
directus10
back-end-development10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
javascript9
caching9
cli8
database8
headless-cms8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
directus/directus
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 9 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Directus backend. They addressed issues related to GraphQL variables in HTTP GET requests, optimizing caching mechanisms within the API. Additionally, the user worked on updating the SDK, specifically refining request URLs within the fields update process. Further, they were involved in updates to CLI commands, including changes to logging and output, highlighting their involvement in multiple facets of the backend development.
cmsno-codecollaborationintuitivevue
smilledge/node-google-books-search
Feb 2013 - Jan 2017
Nodejs client for the Google Books API
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 11 months
apigoogle-booksgoogle-books-apinodejsbooks-api
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