Samson Goddy
Github Star at Open Source Community Africa
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamson Goddy is a seasoned open source program manager and developer relations leader with 11 years of experience building and sustaining global developer communities. As a GitHub Star and co-founder of Open Source Community Africa, he has built programs across 60+ cities to shift Africa from users to creators and routinely bridges diverse technical communities to improve inclusivity. His background blends hands-on front-end contributions (notably updating Sugar Labs’ web UX and metadata) with strategic roles on boards like the Open Source Collective, aligning legal/financial infrastructure for projects. Samson has led community and product feedback at companies such as Sourcegraph, Chainguard, and Hedera, turning grassroots advocacy into measurable growth and tooling improvements. He mentors at-scale—running festivals, training initiatives like African Girls Can Code, and shepherding large volunteer communities—demonstrating a rare mix of operational leadership and grassroots empathy. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs practical web dev chops with a long track record of making open source sustainable and locally relevant.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Graduate, High School Graduate at Reginal Memorial Secondary Academy, Port Harcourt.
English, French
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Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
website-development10
javascript9
fest8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sugarlabs/www
Nov 2016 - Jun 2019
The Sugar Labs web site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 34 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Samson primarily focused on updating the website's front-end elements and metadata. They added Twitter card metadata, Google Knowledge Graph cards, and modified the website's base HTML layout to include updated descriptions and image references. Furthermore, the user addressed UI/UX aspects, modifying the search bar's responsiveness. They also addressed broken links and added a Sugar Labs logo.
web-siteweb-apprubysugarcreative-commons
oscommunityafrica/oscommunityafrica.github.io
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Homepage for Open Source community Africa
Contributions:57 PRs, 111 pushes, 41 branches in 7 months
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