Sam Blausten
Software Engineer at Roadie
Luxembourg
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Top SchoolSam Nixon is a product-focused engineer with nine years of experience building developer-facing tools and SaaS platforms, currently shaping internal developer portals at Roadie. He combines hands-on backend and frontend engineering (Python, TypeScript, React, Node and occasional Ruby) with product leadership experience from Series A to a ~$4B exit, and has run AI/ML product efforts and regulatory work in healthcare. An active contributor to the Backstage open framework, his recent commits improved the Tech Insights backend by refactoring and hardening the FactRetrieverRegistry for more flexible developer portals. Sam’s background spans founding a digital health startup, freelance AI and product work, and earlier government tech leadership—bringing a rare mix of policy, history, and technical pragmatism. Based in Italy, he blends systems-level thinking with shipping practical developer tooling that scales.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) at Scrum AllianceShort course, Social Psychology, Short course, Social Psychology at Birkbeck, University of LondonBachelor of Arts (BA), English Literature, 1st Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Literature, 1st Class Honours at University of SussexRuby, Completed, Ruby, Completed at CodecademyCity of London School
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Github Skills (7)
backstage10
typescript10
typescripts10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
developper9
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 40 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sam's commits primarily focus on the `Tech Insights` backend plugin, specifically the implementation of the `FactRetrieverRegistry` interface and its default implementation. They made changes to context builders and tests to allow for more flexible use of the `FactRetrieverRegistry`. The commits reflect a refactor of the naming, documentation, and mocking of the `FactRetrieverRegistry` to better serve the Backstage developer portal.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
sblausten/sample-service
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
A sample service for testing build tools, testing Backstage etc.
Contributions:34 PRs, 747 pushes, 35 branches in 3 years
testingbuild-toolsbackstagetesting-tools
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