Samuel Colburn
Platform Engineering Manager
Norton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Colburn is a platform engineering manager with 15+ years of experience transforming legacy monoliths into event-driven microservices and building resilient, cost-efficient cloud infrastructure. He has led teams through modernizing deploy patterns, instituting infrastructure-as-code, and overhauling observability to drastically improve outage response and disaster recovery. Comfortable hands-on with Python, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana, he pairs deep technical craft with people and product leadership across startups and mid-size companies. Notably, he has driven multi-tenant data pipelines at scale, cut substantial AWS spend through pragmatic migrations, and built tooling that empowers analysts to ship production-ready analytics. Based in Norton, Massachusetts, he thrives on pushing architectural boundaries while coaching high-performing engineering teams.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Bucknell University
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Github Skills (83)
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midi10
audio10
music10
mysql10
git-repo9
chirp9
windows-application9
data-visualization9
metadata9
grafana9
mouse9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ho0ber/NK2Tray
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Windows Application Volume Control via MIDI
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 60 commits in 3 years 1 month
windowsmidivolumeaudiowindows-application
ho0ber/minecraft_wrapper
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
A simple wrapper for minecraft server
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
minecraftmcspigotminecraft-serverserver
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