Sam Swann
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Venice.ai
Greater Fort Collins Area United States
Summary
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SeniorSam Swann is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating scalable cloud-native systems using Kubernetes and Terraform. He has progressed through SRE and infrastructure leadership roles across crypto, analytics, and media companies—currently at Venice.ai after leading infrastructure at Messari and The HBAR Foundation. Sam excels at building resilient, cost-efficient platforms and has hands-on experience migrating legacy systems to high-availability cloud architectures and automation via Ansible and IaC. He combines deep operational instincts from early sysadmin work managing 150+ TB backups and custom CDNs with modern platform engineering practices. Based in the Greater Fort Collins Area, he thrives on solving thorny operational problems and enabling teams to ship reliably. A practical tinkerer, he often bridges developer needs and infrastructure realities to deliver pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (25)
docker-compose10
blockchain10
backend10
openapi10
solidity9
defaults8
ethereum8
standardized8
grafana8
thegraph8
shapeshift8
react7
launcher7
graphql7
checkly6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shapeshift/unchained
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Unchained is a multi-blockchain backend interface
Contributions:14 reviews, 47 commits, 83 PRs in 6 months
blockchain-backendblockbookblockchainunchainedbackend
samortaylor/unchained
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Unchained is a multi-blockchain backend interface
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 month
blockchain-backendblockchain-platformblockchainunchainedbackend
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