Samuel Marchant
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps Engineer at Darwin
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Marchant is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience shaping DevOps and SRE practices in the UK employment benefits sector. He specializes in cloud and automation tooling—AWS, Azure, VMware, Azure DevOps/TFS, Jenkins, Octopus—and is fluent in scripting with PowerShell/DSC and Groovy to streamline CI/CD pipelines. At Darwin he progressed from systems administration to senior SRE, driving efficiency improvements and pipeline resilience across complex, regulated environments. Outside work he contributes to open-source build and CI automation, notably improving Docker and Drone CI workflows for the widely used boostorg/beast project. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational pain points into pragmatic automation and maintainable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Edenham High SchoolZenos IT ApprenticeshipHayes Sixth Form
Github Skills (19)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
automations10
boost10
cpp9
cprogramming-language8
linux8
windows8
c-language8
networking7
websocket-client6
client-websocket6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
boostorg/beast
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:18 commits, 27 PRs, 18 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and build automation processes. They focused on creating and modifying Dockerfiles for various operating systems to support testing. Furthermore, the user implemented and updated Drone CI configuration files, enhancing the continuous integration and deployment pipeline. This included improvements to installation scripts and consolidation of configuration files, optimizing the build and testing workflow.
client-serverhttp-serverboost-librariestlsbeast
sdarwin/http_proto
Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
HTTP/1 parsing and serialization algorithms using C++11
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years
cppserializationc-plus-plusheader-onlyparsing
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