Sam Rust
Senior Technical Lead at Digital Curation Centre
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Rust is a Senior Technical Lead with 10 years of experience building and operating full-stack, user-focused web platforms, currently driving the open-source DMPonline/Roadmap ecosystem from Saint Petersburg, Florida. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL engineering with product-minded architecture—redesigning databases, overhauling authorization, and delivering RESTful APIs to support 65,000+ users across multiple countries. Sam mentors and scales teams, dockerized development and production workflows to accelerate onboarding, and led the technical transition of a formerly free service to a subscription SaaS model. He regularly engages with research funders and user groups to translate domain feedback into pragmatic features, and has presented machine-actionable DMP work at international research data conferences. Notably, he balances deep technical ownership with adopter support, creating migration tooling and multi-tenant wrappers that help organizations customize and adopt the open-source platform.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Informatics, Computer Science, Master of Informatics, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghRaleigh charter high school
Github Skills (29)
forking10
dmp10
data-management10
ruby10
nodejs10
planning10
collaboration10
ruby-on-rails10
open-data8
renewable-energy8
codebase8
translation7
locale7
internationalization7
localization7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DigitalCurationCentre/roadmap
Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
DCC/UC3 collaboration for a data management planning tool
Contributions:2 releases, 136 commits, 109 PRs in 2 years 9 months
dccdata-managementuc3collaborationplanning-tool
xsrust/rails
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
Rails translation made _('simple').
Contributions:8 PRs, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 8 months
railstranslationrubyi18n
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