Sam Wierema
Chief Technology Officer at TrueTribe
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Wierema is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations and high-throughput platforms. He has led teams of 35+ across infrastructure, billing, QA and reliability functions, architecting systems capable of supporting billions of messages and ensuring high availability at scale. Known for fostering trust and autonomy, Sam blends hands-on product and platform engineering—having built MessageBird’s Voice product and Verify service—with strategic hiring and organizational design. His background spans startups, conferences and web development, reflecting a mix of technical pragmatism and community building (creator of IPAs & APIs and organizer roles). Pragmatic and people-focused, he pairs a communications degree with deep operational experience to translate complex technical challenges into reliable, business-aligned outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Communication and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Arts Communication and Information Sciences at Utrecht UniversityCreative Development / Dramaturgie, Creative Development / Dramaturgie at Professional School of the Arts Utrecht
Dutch, English, German, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (93)
sms10
python-client10
rest-api10
client-library10
messagebird10
api10
sdk10
rest10
java-client10
alerts10
js-client10
sms-messages10
java-api10
middleware9
dotnet9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
samwierema/go-url-shortener
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 1 year 8 months
golangshortenerurl-shortener
samwierema/google-plus-api-codeigniter
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 2 months
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