Samuel Barney
Senior Software Engineer at Cricut
Natick, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Barney is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building practical, performance-minded systems across web, game server, and embedded-like hardware domains from Natick, MA. He excels at turning learning into creation—refactoring front-end validation workflows and adding callbacks for richer UX while also contributing back-end improvements like platform-specific memory monitoring and game mechanics to open-source projects such as Cuberite. At Cricut he focuses on shipping reliable, efficient software, and his background spans leading developer roles, test engineering, and full-stack web development using PHP, Node.js, and C#. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex problems and deliver solutions that make competitors feel stationary, and his hands-on experience maintaining hardware-software kiosks hints at an unusually broad systems perspective.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Github Skills (17)
minecraft10
javascript10
c-language10
jquery10
form-validation10
cprogramming-language10
server10
apidoc9
api9
lua9
html9
css7
apple16
apple26
appleii6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cuberite/cuberite
Sep 2013 - Jul 2016
A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 19 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the Cuberite game server project by implementing platform-specific memory usage retrieval for Apple devices, enhancing the server's resource monitoring capabilities. They also addressed game mechanics by adding and removing block transparency for glass panes, along with correcting errors. Furthermore, the user integrated updates from another repository to improve the Lua API documentation and modified the mob spawning system.
luaminecraftraspberry-piwindowslinux
posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine
Aug 2012 - May 2013
jQuery form validation plugin
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the jQuery validation engine plugin by refactoring and adding new functionality. Their work focused on enhancing the form validation process by implementing features like `onFormSuccess` and `onFormFailure` callbacks. They also introduced options to limit the number of displayed error messages and fixed bugs. Furthermore, the user added demos to showcase the new form features.
jqueryvalidationjavascriptjquery-formvalidation-plugin
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