Samuel Lockart
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSamuel Lockart is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a strong background in Linux, platform engineering and DevOps across fintech and SaaS companies including Afterpay and Zendesk. With over 8 years of hands-on engineering experience and 25 years working with people, he blends technical problem-solving with a people-first leadership style that helps teams deliver reliable infrastructure and automation. He brings practical expertise in automation (Ansible), networking and cyber-security, and a history of evolving roles from systems support to senior platform ownership. Samuel's creative roots in film and television inform a pragmatic yet imaginative approach to engineering challenges, and he maintains a home lab where he experiments and sharpens new skills. Outside of work he brews beer, walks his greyhound and curates film nights—hobbies that mirror his methodical, iterative approach to both craft and code.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Northcote High SchoolBachelor of Film and Televison, Bachelor of Film and Televison at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (186)
api-management10
high-availability10
security10
scheduling10
consul10
istio10
homeserver10
isolation10
microservices10
k8s10
podman10
service-mesh10
mesos10
bare-metal10
matrix10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alam0rt/kustomize-aws-ssm-generator
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Kustomize generator plugin to pull parameters from SSM and create secrets
Contributions:1 release, 14 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
golangparametersgenerator-pluginssmsecrets
alam0rt/nix-config
Jun 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:17 PRs, 223 pushes, 17 branches in 9 months
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