Sam Widdowson
Senior Software Engineer at Anaplan
York, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Widdowson is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience building robust, well-tested full-stack systems and mentoring cross-functional teams. He combines strong stakeholder management and clear communication with a risk-aware engineering approach that prioritises maintainability, documentation, and automated testing. Technically versatile, Sam works across modern front-end stacks (Angular 17–19, React, Vue, TypeScript) and server-side ecosystems (.NET Core 8, Python, Node.js), with production experience in Azure and AWS, event-driven architectures, and both relational and NoSQL databases. He drives delivery through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and pragmatic DevOps practices, while also contributing to technical documentation and statistical modelling efforts. A keen technologist off-hours, he explores low-level programming in Zig, NeoVim mastery, and Linux (Ubuntu/Arch), reflecting a continual learning mindset that he brings back to the team. Based in York, UK, Sam is known for leading by example and accelerating the growth of less-experienced engineers through hands-on coaching.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Newcastle University
Github Skills (4)
map-editor10
word-processor8
tessellation3
assembler2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samwiddowson/wordgrinder
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done.
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
word-processor
samwiddowson/dbd
Feb 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 53 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 2 months
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