Samuel Spencer

Canberra, Australia

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Samuel Spencer is a data management and software leader with 13 years' experience building metadata solutions for Australian government and public-sector organisations. As co-founder, CEO and CISO of Aristotle Metadata he has led product strategy, technical architecture and a growing team to deliver scalable metadata registries and data portals used for government data governance. A former senior public servant and researcher, Sam blends practical implementation experience across health, statistics and policy with open-standards advocacy to turn complex metadata models into user-friendly tools. He remains hands-on in development and open-source work—contributing Python fixes and real-time features to projects like django-notifications and xhtml2pdf—while advocating to demystify metadata through talks and community building. Based in Canberra and armed with an Executive MBA, he specialises in making interoperable, secure metadata practical and accessible for non-technical stakeholders.

13 years of coding experience

14 years of employment as a software developer

Master of Business Administration - MBA (Executive), Master of Business Administration - MBA (Executive) at AGSM @ UNSW Business School

Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Web Technology, Applied Statistics, Operations Research, Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Web Technology, Applied Statistics, Operations Research at The University of Western Australia

Professional Certificate of Web Accessibility, Professional Certificate of Web Accessibility at University of South Australia

Bachelor of Nursing, (Discontinued), Bachelor of Nursing, (Discontinued) at Edith Cowan University

Github Skills (12)

pdf10

notification10

api10

html-to-pdf10

python10

apidoc10

django10

testing10

package9

javascript9

html-pdf9

css8

Programming languages (13)

C#C++CSSCVueHTMLTypeScriptShell

Github contributions (5)

xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf

Dec 2015 - Oct 2017

A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:22 commits, 17 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to improving Python 3 compatibility and fixing related issues within the xhtml2pdf library. Their work involved modifications to several files, including `reportlab_paragraph.py`, `xhtml2pdf_reportlab.py`, and `testrender/testrender.py`, indicating efforts to address Python 2/3 differences and ensure the correct rendering of PDF files. Furthermore, they added test cases, suggesting a focus on quality assurance and the maintenance of the library's functionality. They also contributed to the project's build process with the addition of an appveyor runner.

pdfwkhtmltopdfreportlabpdf-generationconverting

django-notifications/django-notifications

Mar 2015 - Feb 2016

GitHub notifications alike app for Django

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:20 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 10 months

Contributions summary:Samuel implemented features for a live notification counter and real-time list within the Django notifications app. These contributions included adding API endpoints for unread counts and lists, modifying template tags to display live updates, and adding Javascript for the real-time functionality. The user also fixed various issues, including those related to Python 3 compatibility and test failures, and updated the README documentation.

pythondjangonotificationsnotification-centernotification

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