Sam Stenvall
Senior Software Engineer at Nitor
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Stenvall is a Senior Software Engineer in Helsinki with 13 years of experience blending backend development and DevOps to deliver reliable, production-ready systems. He combines hands-on backend work—maintaining legacy code, building new features, and shipping libraries—with strong infrastructure expertise across AWS and smaller providers, from single-server setups to autoscaled environments. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s been the go-to DevOps lead and has modernized systems while keeping developer workflows healthy. Sam is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like Kodi and Tvheadend, where his PVR and UI improvements have reached real end users. He also maintains community-used tooling on GitHub and prefers to develop in the open, a practice that unexpectedly led to wider adoption of his projects.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information and Media Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information and Media Technology at Arcada University of Applied ScienceStudent, Student at Ekenäs GymnasiumDatanom, Datanom at Yrkesinstitutet Sydväst
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (32)
yii10
web-widgets10
javascript10
c-language10
twitter-bootstrap10
widgets10
vcr10
c1110
kodi10
pv10
c1710
webui10
php10
xbmc10
multimedia10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons
Aug 2013 - Jan 2015
Old XBMC PVR add-ons for Kodi up till Helix. Anything newer than Helix is built from the new location: https://github.com/kodi-pvr
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 24 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on enhancing the XBMC PVR add-ons for Kodi. Their work included adding features like populating service, provider names, and mux information in PVR signal status updates. They also refactored stream management utilities, improving stream sorting, and fixing issues related to stream properties and handling various stream types. Furthermore, the user made code improvements to several source files within the PVR addon, which addressed compiler warnings and enhanced overall functionality.
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xbmc/xbmc
Aug 2013 - Jan 2017
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 183 commits, 122 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the PVR (Personal Video Recorder) functionality within the Kodi media center. Their work involved adding and modifying code related to deleting recordings, handling channel settings, and ensuring proper state management during channel switching and playback. They focused on cleaning up code, improving efficiency, and refactoring existing components, particularly within the PVR and DVD/Omxplayer modules. These changes aimed to enhance the user experience and address bugs in the PVR functionality.
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