Sam R
Distinguished Engineer at Plerion
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorSam R is a Distinguished Engineer based in Sydney with 9 years of hands-on experience building SaaS products on AWS using serverless architectures. He has led and scaled cloud-native engineering teams—most recently at Plerion and previously as Head of R&D for Trend Micro’s Cloud One—delivering CSPM and Lambda-driven systems. His background spans full-stack and enterprise JavaEE systems to modern API-first serverless platforms, giving him a rare combination of legacy system design and cloud-native operational experience. Passionate about team success and culture building, he pairs technical stewardship with mentoring and organisational enablement. An offbeat detail: his GitHub bio hints at a playful curiosity—“This is worm”—reflecting a humble, organic approach to problem solving and continuous improvement.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Persian, English, German
Github Skills (33)
aws-lambda10
azure-functions10
google-cloud-functions10
aws-dynamodb10
sam10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
aws-sam10
mobile-web10
aws10
serverless-framework10
lambda10
serverless10
nodejs10
serverless-architectures10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FunctionalWorm/website-change-monitor
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
An AWS SAM project to regularly monitor a web page for changes
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
monitoraws-samawssamweb-page
FunctionalWorm/configure-aws-credentials
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Configure AWS credential environment variables for use in other GitHub Actions.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
environment-variablessecuritycredentialconfigurecredentials
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