Sam Weston
Platform Engineering Lead
Test Valley, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Weston is a hands-on platform engineering leader with 11 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently heading Platform Engineering at 9fin. He combines deep technical expertise across bare metal, networking, Kubernetes and AWS with a proven track record of organising teams to deliver resilient, scalable platforms—from migrating dozens of microservices to Kubernetes at Pulselive to standardising deployment and observability at Tails.com. Comfortable both managing multi-continent teams and diving into YAML and code, he focuses on pragmatic improvements that balance stability, security and developer productivity. Sam’s background includes end-to-end responsibility for cloud and physical infrastructure, cyber security and operational resilience, which gives him a rare perspective bridging platform, data and internal IT. Colleagues know him as a “whitespace enthusiast” who still prefers to stay hands-on while shaping organisational change.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Computing Mathematics Physics Politics, A-Level Computing Mathematics Physics Politics at Coopers' Company and Coborn SchoolBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (200)
bitnami10
scheduling10
automation10
cloud-platform10
k8s10
operator10
init10
hashicorp10
scheduler10
vault10
data-science10
apache10
solace10
prometheus10
airflow10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cablespaghetti/nixos-configs
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
cablespaghetti/missing-container-metrics
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Prometheus exporter for container metrics cAdvisor won't give you
Contributions:2 releases, 31 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
exporterprometheus-exporterdockerprometheusmetrics
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