Summary
Sam Orton is a senior full-stack software engineer with over 20 years of experience building high-performance systems across .NET, Java, C++ and Go, currently focused on modern .NET Core, Kestrel and Blazor at Paddy Power Betfair. His background spans low-level C/C++ and cluster computing to enterprise OLTP and cloud-backed services (AWS Neptune, Oracle, SQL Server), giving him a rare depth across both R&D and large-scale production systems. He has a strong track record of evolving legacy platforms into modern architectures, leveraging WPF/WCF migration experience and pragmatic use of PL/SQL and microservices patterns. Based in Llandudno, Wales, Sam blends academic foundations in electronic engineering and computer science with practical delivery on high-throughput betting and telecom products. Colleagues rely on him for difficult integrations and performance tuning where systems, databases and real-time processing intersect.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at The University of Sheffield