Sam Stelfox
Staff Software Engineer Engineering Lead at Banyan
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSam Stelfox is a staff software engineer and engineering lead with 14+ years building secure, large-scale distributed systems and turning academic-grade ideas into production. He has designed petabyte-scale encrypted storage and custom journaled distributed filesystems, led engineering teams, and driven technical policy and SOC2-aligned security practices at startups. Proficient in Rust, Go, Python and Ruby (and "more Bash than I'd like"), Sam combines deep systems and embedded experience with ML-based anomaly detection to harden networks and DNS at global scale. He excels at balancing hands-on implementation with mentorship and organizational strategy, translating customer needs into robust architectures and operational practices. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings a rare blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and product-minded leadership that surfaces in both platforms and policies.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Vermont Technical College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
async9
disable9
rust9
socket9
compile-time9
actix-web9
gatt9
scheduling9
web-development9
blockchain9
ethereum9
pad9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sstelfox/gentoo_setup_scripts
Apr 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:275 commits, 183 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
sstelfox/stelfox.net
Oct 2013 - Nov 2021
The source code for my website
Contributions:1010 commits, 2 PRs, 689 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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