Samuel Irmes
Director, Platform Engineering At Scholastic
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Irmes is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 13+ years of experience, currently directing Platform Engineering and serving as Principal Engineer at Scholastic. He blends hands-on development and architecture skills—especially in Scala, Akka, Play, Java/J2EE and Node.js—with proven leadership of local and distributed teams across Agile and waterfall environments. His career spans major roles at HBC Digital and IBM, where he moved between senior developer, architect, and technical team lead responsibilities, delivering web and batch systems across Mac/UNIX/Windows stacks. Comfortable operating with minimal supervision, he pairs strong initiative and fast learning with an ability to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Uncommonly for an executive, he remains deeply technical and code-focused, keeping current with modern JVM and JavaScript ecosystems while holding advanced degrees in computer applications and business administration.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Fundação Getúlio VargasPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
dotty3
scala2
runner1
static-analysis1
sonarqube1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sirmes/sirmes.github.io
Apr 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years
sirmes/swagger-play
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:89 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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