Sam Vincent
Principal at Sam Vincent Software Engineering & Design
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Vincent is a Principal full-stack software engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native applications and leading teams from Vancouver, BC. He blends systems thinking and pragmatic design to deliver scalable products using React, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, Postgres and AWS. As founder of Sam Vincent Software Engineering & Design and a Technical Team Lead at realtor.com, he combines hands-on engineering with consulting and delivery leadership across startups and enterprise contexts. An active contributor to the Ruby on Rails ecosystem, he has improved core functionality in the widely used ActiveAdmin project, enhancing admin UX and flexibility. Colleagues rely on him for clear, repeatable paths to success—mentoring teams through architecture, operations, and DevOps practices. He’s equally comfortable diving into backend internals or shaping frontend experiences, often spotting systemic improvements others miss.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
English, French
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Github Skills (15)
ruby-rails10
rails10
code-generation10
admin-interface10
admin10
ruby10
rspec9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
charts6
api6
qr-code6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin
Jun 2010 - Mar 2012
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the ActiveAdmin framework's core functionality. Their work included implementing custom show views, handling resource names with spaces, and adding new features to the paginated collection component. They also addressed scoping issues, resolved bugs related to filtering, and added conditional display support for dashboard sections. These changes enhance the framework's flexibility and usability for Rails applications.
ruby-on-railsrubyactiveadminarbrerails
samvincent/has_money
Apr 2010 - Jan 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push, 1 tag in 5 years 10 months
ruby-on-railsrailsrubymoneyactiverecord
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