Sam Williams
Software Engineering Director at Kraken
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Williams is a seasoned software engineering director with 17 years of experience leading teams through product-scale delivery, currently heading engineering at Kraken after senior leadership roles at OakNorth and ClearBank. He combines deep hands-on engineering roots—from contributing to open-source projects like the AS3-signals library—to strategic leadership as a former Chief Data Officer and Chief Engineer responsible for hundreds of practitioners. Sam has a strong track record of building teams and platforms from the ground up, having grown transformative digital capabilities at Deutsche Asset Management and delivered low-latency distributed systems at Improbable. Based in Bristol, he blends technical curiosity (a Computational Physics background) with commercial savvy, often stepping into business development and client-facing roles to align technology with outcomes. Notably, his open-source refactors show an attention to code quality and maintainability even at executive levels.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 Computational Physics, 2:1 Computational Physics at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (4)
actionscript10
testing9
software-design8
api-design7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robertpenner/as3-signals
Mar 2010 - Mar 2010
Signals is a new approach for AS3 events, inspired by C# events and signals/slots in Qt.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Sam contributed primarily to refactoring and enhancing the core functionality of the AS3-signals library. Their commits focused on improving the signal implementation, including changes to the `DeluxeSignal`, `NativeSignal`, and `Signal` classes. They also addressed code formatting inconsistencies and implemented new features, such as returning the listener in `add` and `addOnce` methods and updating ASdocs. These changes reflect an effort to improve code quality and maintainability.
eventsapproachas3signalsslots
sammyt/fussy
Mar 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 4 months
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