Sam Trenholme
Open Source Developer at MaraDNS
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Trenholme is an experienced open-source developer and senior software consultant based in San Diego with over a decade of hands-on experience across DevOps, embedded systems, and web development. He is the long-term maintainer of MaraDNS, a notable open-source DNS server with a Wikipedia page and a devoted following, and has recently refocused on open-source projects including Lua-based embedded work. Comfortable across stacks—from Jenkins, Docker, and cloud deployments to C, Python, Perl, and web front ends—he bridges low-level networking tools and modern CI/CD practices. Sam has delivered remote consulting for international clients, built a complete COVID-19 information site during the pandemic, and combines pragmatic, revenue-focused technology choices with a preference for practical solutions over buzzwords. He’s also an electronic musician and single parent, reflecting a creative, disciplined approach to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computational Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computational Linguistics at California State University-Fresno
Github Skills (108)
encrypt10
python10
lua10
dns10
certbot10
act10
letsencrypt10
acme10
carbon-emissions10
mdns10
certificate10
chess10
letter10
ssl10
ssl-certificate10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
samboy/rg32hash
Mar 2014 - Aug 2020
Contributions:293 commits, 317 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
samboy/misc-civ4-mapscripts
Apr 2017 - Jan 2022
This is a collection of mapscripts I have made for Civilization IV over the years
Contributions:3 PRs, 146 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
civilizationcivilization-ivmap-editortileset
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