Sam Silvester
Founder at Silvester Labs
United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Silvester is a founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building systems-level software and R&D products, now leading Silvester Labs in bioinformatics and compression. He progressed from internships at King and Improbable to senior and principal engineering roles, shipping complex distributed systems and research-driven features. Based in the UK and Cambridge-educated, Sam combines a deep technical mindset with entrepreneurial drive to turn algorithmic ideas into practical tools. He has a track record of working at the intersection of performance, large-scale data handling, and domain-specific R&D rather than only front-end or product-facing work. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic yet research-informed solutions that bridge prototyping and production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cambridge
Github Skills (8)
mmo10
unreal-engine-510
unreal-engine-410
unreal10
gdk10
plugin10
quake9
java5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
spatialos/UnrealGDKExampleProject
Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
GDK for Unreal Example Project
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
unreal-engineunrealblueprintsunreal-engine-5ue4
pighead10/GameGig
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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