Sam Vaughton
Staff Engineer at Valstro
Torquay, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Vaughton is a Staff Engineer and tech lead with 12 years’ experience designing reliable, observable systems and enabling teams to ship with clarity. He blends hands-on backend expertise—primarily C# and Postgres—with full-stack fluency from building SPAs in Angular, Vue, and React, and recent Next.js work for external APIs and third-party integrations. His background spans search and booking systems for hospitality, channel management for vacation rentals, in-website advertising, and finance-focused e-commerce, giving him a knack for clean architecture and maintainable observability. Sam routinely sits between design and delivery, debugging tricky issues while improving developer experience and tooling so teams have the context and autonomy to move fast. He’s led engineering efforts at fast-moving marketplaces and startups, including co-founding a startup that was later acquired, which informs his pragmatic, product-minded approach to platform design. Based in Torquay, he brings both startup grit and process-driven leadership to complex integration and API architecture challenges.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer & Network Security, BS, Computer & Network Security at University of the West of EnglandTorquay Boys Grammar School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (104)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aptenex/lycan-elasticsearch-config
Sep 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:53 pushes in 5 years 6 months
aptenex/upp
Dec 2017 - May 2024
Property pricing for the Rentivo Ecosystem
Contributions:2 PRs, 173 pushes in 6 years 6 months
sarifecosystemomspricing
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