Sam Roberts
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Roberts is a Senior Software Engineer with 27 years of experience building and stabilizing system-level and cloud software, currently at DigitalOcean in Vancouver. He brings deep expertise in networking, low-level C work, and Node.js runtime and build systems—evidenced by contributions to libnet, LuaSocket, and core Node.js and its build infra. Sam has a strong track record of improving reliability and cross-platform builds (AIX, PPC64, s390x) and fixing subtle bugs like memory leaks, pointer issues, and event/cluster race conditions. He combines hands-on debugging and DevOps sensibilities with leadership experience from roles at IBM, StrongLoop, and security-focused Wurldtech. Quietly focused and pragmatic, he prefers technical contribution over recruiter outreach and excels at hard-to-test, infrastructure-facing problems.
27 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc. Engineering-Physics Computer Science Option, B.A.Sc. Engineering-Physics Computer Science Option at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (48)
socket-io10
monitoring10
debug10
javascript10
ppc64le10
system-programming10
event-handling10
s390x10
aix10
bash10
c-programming10
c1110
networking10
cicd10
c1710
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
libnet/libnet
Feb 2009 - Oct 2019
A portable framework for low-level network packet construction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:396 commits, 13 PRs, 20 pushes in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the libnet library, a framework for low-level network packet construction. Their commits focused on addressing build issues, memory leaks, and incorrect pointer usage, particularly in the context of handling IPv4 and IPv6 packets. They also made changes to align with C standards and correct inconsistencies in type definitions, indicating a focus on code quality and stability. The user's work centered around improving the library's core functionality and ensuring its correct operation with various network protocols.
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nodejs/build
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Better build and test infra for Node.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:77 commits, 169 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions primarily revolve around configuring and maintaining the build infrastructure for the Node.js project. Their work includes modifying build scripts to support different platforms and compiler versions, particularly focusing on AIX, PPC64, and s390x architectures. They've also worked on updating dependencies, adjusting build exclusions, and configuring the use of ccache to improve build times, with the ultimate goal of expanding platform coverage and ensuring successful releases.
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