Samael Bate
Senior Software Engineer at ITV
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamael Bate is a Senior Software Engineer based in Leeds with 14 years of experience building full-stack and backend systems for startups and large enterprises, currently contributing at ITV. He is most comfortable with Java/Kotlin on the JVM and Typescript/Javascript for UIs, and has led migrations to AWS, container orchestration, and real-time data platforms using technologies like Kafka, Flink, Druid and Pulumi. Samael has hands-on experience producing GraalVM native executables with Quarkus for serverless deployments and has shepherded teams as a tech lead and principal engineer responsible for architecture and code quality. His background spans modern frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, Ember) as well as legacy stacks (JSF, JSP), native mobile and desktop UIs, reflecting a practical breadth across the stack. He actively contributes to open source and is learning Rust, showing a continuous curiosity beyond day-to-day production work.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PGCert Software Engineering, PGCert Software Engineering at Leeds Beckett University
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Github Skills (200)
composition10
ioc-container10
testing10
perl10
jenkins-plugin10
gradle-plugin10
integration-testing10
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commons10
ant-task10
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json10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
SingingBush/dubclient
Jun 2018 - Feb 2025
Conveniently call the REST API on code.dlang.org and other DUB repositories
Contributions:5 releases, 103 PRs, 109 pushes in 6 years 9 months
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SingingBush/barcode4j
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
This barcode4j fork was migrated from Sourceforge svn in March 2020 with full commit history
Contributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 93 PRs in 5 years 1 month
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