Sam Whitney
Platform Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolSam Whitney is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in platform and infrastructure engineering with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems from Portland, Oregon. Currently at Grafana Labs, he brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps (Flux), CI/CD, and multi-cloud deployments from prior roles scaling >120 production clusters and supporting regulated medical research platforms. He combines strong incident-response and on-call experience with a customer-facing bent—helping complex customers with networking, security, and compliance while improving telemetry and observability stacks. Known for pragmatic automation and cost-optimization work, Sam also mentors peers through remote pair-programming and escalation support, translating operational complexity into repeatable, auditable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Missouri
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
failover10
wan10
database9
replication9
visualizations7
distributed-database7
elasticsearch6
elastic6
observability6
kibana6
preflight5
chrome4
javascript3
golang3
chrome-extension3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swhi3635/ansible-home
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 5 branches, 3 comments in 5 years 2 months
swhi3635/bad-ideas
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 PRs, 46 pushes, 14 branches in 2 months
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