Samuel Giffard
Senior Backend Engineer at Independant Python Contractor
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSamuel Giffard is a Senior Backend Engineer with a decade of experience building and maintaining scalable Python-based systems across startups and larger enterprises. Now based in Amsterdam, he has shipped backend products for companies like Picnic, Aiven, and myTomorrows while also working as an independent Python contractor and trainer. His background spans databases and replication at Amadeus, CI/CD and cloud cost optimizations for Unreal Engine workloads, and hands-on IoT and Raspberry Pi projects—demonstrating a mix of systems-level thinking and pragmatic delivery. A University of Edinburgh MSc graduate, he pairs deep technical skills in Python, Django, FastAPI and performance tuning with real-world product ownership and hiring experience. Outside work he’s curious about AI and IoT and even finds time for baking and travel, reflecting a practical, detail-oriented engineer who enjoys concrete, creative challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Robert Gordon University
French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
testing10
metadata10
adonisjs10
svg10
linter10
relational10
unit-testing10
programming-language10
python10
backup10
high-performance10
query-language10
publish10
branding10
chatbot10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Mulugruntz/jam
Mar 2018 - Dec 2024
Jenkins Agent Manager
Contributions:27 PRs, 6466 pushes, 539 branches in 6 years 9 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginagentjenkins-agentaem
Mulugruntz/celery
Sep 2016 - Dec 2023
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
rqtask-queueworkerdistributed-systemsmicroservices
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