Summary
Sam Sippe is a pragmatic development manager with over 20 years of software experience and a proven track record of building delivery-focused teams that turn technical capability into commercial outcomes. Based on the Gold Coast, he has led teams of up to 20 engineers to ship cloud-native web, mobile and API products on AWS using modern stacks (React/Typescript, .NET, Node, Docker) and DevOps practices. He has driven rapid feature delivery while managing risk, restructured organisations into product-focused squads, and overseen successful product and IP sales. Sam’s background spans investment banking, industrial automation and construction tech, where he delivered solutions ranging from trading systems to machine-learning site analysis that outperformed domain experts. Comfortable both as a hands-on architect and people manager, he combines engineering rigor with stakeholder diplomacy and a habit of turning R&D bets into deployed value.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English