Sam Roberton
Director Of Engineering (Assessments) at Get Fluent
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Roberton is a Director of Engineering with 11 years of professional software experience, currently leading assessment engineering at Criteria Corp from Sydney. He combines hands-on full-stack work—demonstrated by meaningful contributions adapting the popular ClojureScript re-frame framework for JVM and cross-platform CLJC use—with strategic leadership through roles as Technical Director at Alcami and co-founder of a language-learning startup. Comfortable across Clojure, SQL and mobile platforms, he has shipped products through acquisition and scaled engineering teams. His background is multidisciplinary, holding first-class honours in both Computer Systems Engineering and Law, which helps him balance technical rigor with clear, governance-minded decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Laws, First Class, Honours Bachelor of Laws, First Class at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (9)
clojure10
interoperability10
react10
re-frame10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
testing9
jvm9
logging8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
day8/re-frame
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
A ClojureScript framework for building user interfaces, leveraging React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 20 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on adapting the re-frame framework for use with ClojureScript and the JVM, introducing CLJC for cross-platform testing. They converted files to CLJC, implemented interop solutions, and addressed incompatibilities. Furthermore, the user modified core re-frame components, including the router, subscriptions, and logging, to ensure functionality and address arity issues. Several commits focused on adapting tools.logging and improving JVM compatibility.
clojurescriptreactreagentre-framespa
samroberton/dotfiles
Aug 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:72 commits, 39 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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