Samuel Peers
Staff Engineer at Forma.ai
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSamuel Peers is a Staff Engineer based in Winnipeg with 10 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems and leading teams to deliver high-impact features. He has driven architecture and delivery improvements at BenchSci—designing a search solution that replaced 20 endpoints and boosted performance 100x—and now focuses on ML and functional programming interests. Samuel combines strong front-end instincts (notably contributing UI/UX enhancements to the Firefox DevTools debugger) with backend expertise in Django, Elasticsearch, and Python performance tuning. He’s comfortable modernizing platforms—from migrating servers to Kubernetes to creating CI/CD and cost-saving AWS workflows—and has a track record of instituting engineering practices like design systems and scrum. Known for quickly shipping features and mentoring peers, he also brings a practical research background from bioinformatics and exchange study experience in Sweden that informs his data-driven approach.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) (Co-op) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) (Co-op) Computer Science at University of ManitobaComputer Science Exchange Student, Computer Science Exchange Student at Linköping University
English, French, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/debugger
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
The faster and smarter Debugger for Firefox DevTools 🔥🦊🛠
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 19 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the front-end of the Firefox debugger. They implemented and styled a shortcuts modal, added the ability to preview React components in the debugger, and made style tweaks to the modal. The user also worked on refactoring preview functionality and updating modal component code, specifically for the React preview. Their work included modifications to components and CSS files, demonstrating a focus on UI/UX enhancements within the debugger interface.
firefoxsmarterfasterdeveloper-toolsdebugging
samuel-peers/shopify-template
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
A template for building a Shopify app
Contributions:89 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aws-lambdaexpressshopify-appvuedynamodb
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