Samuel Leathers
Head Of Product at NixEdge, LLC
Franklin Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSamuel Leathers is a Head of Product and seasoned DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable CI/CD, build and release systems for blockchain and distributed systems, currently leading product at Input Output (IOHK). He brings deep hands-on expertise with Nix, Hydra, Docker, and deployment tooling, and has driven build and release improvements across flagship Cardano projects such as cardano-node, cardano-wallet, Daedalus, and cardano-db-sync. As owner of NixEdge he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with enterprise-grade operational rigor, often focusing on automation, reproducible builds, and cross-platform installer workflows. Practical and detail-oriented, Samuel’s work includes less-visible but critical contributions like ShellCheck and Hedgehog test integration, Windows support, and cache-busting release fixes that significantly improve developer experience and release reliability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Sahuaro High School, Tucson, AZBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Penn State University
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Github Skills (33)
docker10
nix10
scripting10
hydra10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
cryptocurrency10
release-management10
script10
cardano10
build-automation10
blockchain10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
input-output-hk/cardano-ops
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
NixOps deployment configuration for IOHK/Cardano devops
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 120 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment configuration of the Cardano project. Their work involved creating and modifying NixOps deployment configurations for the `cardano-ops` repository. They focused on adding delegation configurations, configuring monitoring tools, modifying base service configurations, and making changes to the cluster and deployment files. The user's contributions enabled setting up and configuring the necessary services.
deploymentdevopsnixopscardano
IntersectMBO/cardano-node
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 160 reviews, 200 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily worked on adding and refining command-line interface (CLI) arguments for the Cardano demo node. Their commits involved modifying the main application file to integrate these arguments, as well as updating build configurations to support these new features. The user's changes demonstrate an understanding of the project's structure and the ability to extend its functionality through the command line interface.
core-componentblockchainplutusdecentralisedcardano
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