Sam Watson
Whitefish, Montana United States
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Top SchoolSam Watson is a backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native microservices and big data pipelines. He specializes in rapidly developing scalable, portable applications using Go, Python, and Java, and has deep experience with streaming and analytics stacks like Kafka, Kinesis, Spark, Redshift, and Airflow. Comfortable across AWS and GCP, Sam leverages Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes to deliver robust infrastructure and CI/CD with Jenkins and CircleCI. He favors serverless and event-driven patterns (Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS) alongside NoSQL and search technologies such as DynamoDB and Elasticsearch. Based in Whitefish, Montana, he combines practical production engineering with a curiosity for new tools and approaches. His academic background in computer science from Carleton College and the Aquincum Institute of Technology underpins a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to solving complex data problems.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.6 Cumulative GPA, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, 3.6 Cumulative GPA at Carleton CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Aquincum Institute of Technology
Github Skills (39)
boto10
continuous-integration10
python10
localstack10
music-streaming10
aws-cloud10
testing10
aws-lambda10
subsonic10
audio10
aws10
streaming-audio10
serverless-framework10
streaming-api10
audio-streaming10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spwats/mediaserver
May 2021 - Sep 2024
docker-based plex & usenet media server using custom subdomains with tls
Contributions:11 PRs, 27 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 4 months
plextlsdockerusenetsubdomains
SwatsonCodes/good-configs
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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