Samuel Stenton
Senior Technical Lead at SiXworks an IBM company
Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSamuel Stenton is a Senior Technical Lead with 11 years' experience specializing in cloud-native platform engineering and DevSecOps, currently shaping platform strategy at SiXworks (an IBM company). He designs and automates secure Kubernetes environments (AKS, VMware Tanzu) and builds platform tooling using Terraform, Vault, Boundary, Ansible/AWX, and CI/CD pipelines across GitHub Actions and GitLab CI. Previously a software engineer, he brings hands-on Node.js and React experience to bridge developer experience and infrastructure reliability. He has led platform teams through air-gapped deployments, regulatory-sensitive migrations, and company divestiture projects, demonstrating comfort in high-pressure, changing environments. Known for “automating his job away,” Samuel combines consultancy and advocacy with practical delivery—growing teams and embedding secure, auditable workflows. Based in the Cotswolds, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic developer mindset that emphasizes repeatable, tool-driven platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science, Computer Science Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
Github Skills (86)
terraform10
azure10
azure-resource-manager10
terraform-provider10
resource-manager10
signing9
laravel9
browser9
docker-registry9
php9
react9
probot9
javascript8
harbor8
container-management8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SamStenton/samuelstenton.com
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
SamStenton/go-with-tests
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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