Sam Pointer
SRE at Apple
Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSam Pointer is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years in SRE and over 25 years of putting services on the Internet, currently contracting at Apple from Sevenoaks, UK. He has designed and led multi-cloud management, telemetry, and release systems for large enterprises—most notably architecting Go-based, Terraform-driven automation for hundreds of AWS and Azure accounts at Centrica. His background includes scaling million-user platforms at Playfish/EA and building telemetry-led IoT infrastructure for Hive/British Gas, plus hands-on leadership roles at Space Ape and OpsUnit. Sam blends strategic architecture with day-to-day delivery, often writing the operational software that ties testing, observability and release mechanics together. He’s comfortable across bespoke systems and large-scale cloud automation, and quietly brings decades of operational memory to solve thorny production problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
75reputation
4kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (132)
amqp-client10
prometheus-exporter10
ruby10
fluentd10
redis-client10
collectd10
latency10
directory-tree10
cloud-api10
metrics-server10
rrdtool10
cpu-monitoring10
snmp10
region10
daemon10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sampointer/fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-ingest
Mar 2017 - Sep 2020
Alternative to ryotarai/fluent-plugin-cloudwatch-logs for ingesting AWS Cloudwatch logs via fluentd
Contributions:19 commits, 19 PRs, 217 pushes in 3 years 7 months
pagerdutyfluentdloggingcloudwatchcloudwatch-logs
sampointer/dy
Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
Construct YAML from a directory tree
Contributions:17 releases, 33 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 9 months
containersdirectory-treedockerkubernetesdirectory
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