Sam Woodson
Development Team Lead at Uplifter Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSam Woodson is a backend-first, full-stack Development Team Lead in Vancouver with 10 years of experience building scalable products and teams, currently leading engineering at Uplifter Inc. He blends Python and TypeScript expertise across Django, Angular, React, Next.js, and AWS to drive pragmatic architecture, mentorship, and reliable execution. Known for fostering strong culture, shared ownership, and honest communication, he helps teams ship with confidence and continuously improve. Sam’s background in computer engineering from UBC and long tenure moving from Senior Developer to team lead reflect a steady focus on system design and people development. An understated strength is his knack for turning operational constraints into clearer architectures that scale with growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering
Github Skills (5)
django-admin8
xadmin7
django-rest-framework6
django6
python5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
samwoodson/orchestration-workshop
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
ccn-2m/django-guardian
Jul 2018 - Jul 2022
Per object permissions for Django
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 11 months
pythondjangoauthenticationpermissionscreative-commons
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