Sammy Rasha
Senior Sales Lead, AI Workforce Solutions, UK Media & Communications
London, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSammy Rasha is a technology and sales leader with eight years’ experience bridging engineering and commercial strategy across cloud, blockchain, and AI-driven workforce solutions. Currently Senior Sales Lead for AI Workforce Solutions in UK Media & Communications at Microsoft, he previously combined cloud architecture and product management roles to translate technical capabilities into customer value. His early engineering work includes full‑stack and back-end contributions to notable open-source projects such as the IBM Blockchain VS Code extension and Hyperledger Fabric’s Node.js chaincode, reflecting hands‑on expertise in developer tooling, TypeScript, and test automation. Based in London, Sammy brings a pragmatic blend of product sensibility and developer empathy, often surfacing subtle UX and telemetry improvements that make complex systems more usable for teams and customers.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Science with Honours Computer Science with Industrial Placement, Bachelor’s of Science with Honours Computer Science with Industrial Placement at Newcastle UniversityA Levels Mathematics Further Mathematics French, A Levels Mathematics Further Mathematics French at Ibstock Place School
English, French
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
sinon10
testing10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
chai10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
hyperledger10
test-automation10
telemetry8
gulp8
apim7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-node
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Hyperledger Fabric Node.js Smart Contracts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:SamRasha's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Hyperledger Fabric Node.js Smart Contracts repository. Their work includes adding TypeScript definitions for the shim, implementing features like allowing no arguments to be passed for the Init command, and adding a linter. They've also been involved in refactoring and expanding the test suite, including new end-to-end tests for the chaincode. Overall, their work improves the development experience and the reliability of the codebase.
hyperledgerfabricnode-jsblockchainnodejs
IBM-Blockchain/blockchain-vscode-extension
Sep 2018 - May 2019
IBM Blockchain Platform extension for Visual Studio Code (this project is no longer active)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sammy's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing and maintaining the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for Visual Studio Code. They focused on implementing features such as smart contract packaging and dev mode toggling, and improving the overall user experience by addressing error messaging and adding telemetry for usage statistics. The changes involve modifications to both the client-side code, including testing components, and the core functionality of the extension.
ibm-blockchain-platformvisual-studio-codeblockchain-platformvscodevscode-extension
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