Sam Rose
Senior Developer Educator
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Rose is a Senior Developer Educator with 11 years of engineering experience across fintech, developer tooling, and large-scale platform roles in the UK, currently shaping developer experience at ngrok. He has progressed from backend and SRE roles at Google to lead and senior engineering positions at Monzo, Starling and Standard, bringing deep operational rigour to API and platform design. Sam combines hands-on backend development with developer-focused teaching—translating complex distributed systems into clear guidance and tooling for teams and users. His background spans startups and scale-ups, giving him a knack for shipping reliable systems under fast iteration cycles and mentoring engineers through growth-stage challenges.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Glamorgan
Github Skills (200)
crud-application10
ripgrep10
libgit210
postgresql10
low-code10
bash10
grep10
integrations10
internal-tools10
ruby10
visual-studio10
directories10
command-line-tool10
rest-api10
ack10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
samwho/obsidian-wikidata-importer
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A plugin for importing data from Wikidata into your Obsidian vault.
Contributions:4 releases, 7 reviews, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
samwho/helm-charts
May 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:31 releases, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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