Samuel Suter
Principal Platform Engineer
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Suter is a Principal Platform Engineer with 10+ years building internal developer platforms that help thousands of engineers ship software safely across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments. He blends architect-level strategy with hands-on execution—driving platform direction for 10+ teams at Twilio and now leading platform work at Upstart. His specialties include CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes automation, cluster provisioning, and scaling developer experiences (notably contributing to Buildkite agent and Argo ecosystems). Samuel has repeatedly turned manual compliance and onboarding bottlenecks into self-service, auditable workflows that cut delivery time from days to minutes. A pragmatic engineer, he pairs platform design with automation and preventive controls so developers can go to production in under 30 minutes. Based in Denver, he also brings deep legacy-to-cloud migration experience from earlier roles at McAfee and a knack for shipping durable operator/controller code and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Federal Vocational Degree Computer Science, Federal Vocational Degree Computer Science at Federal vocational Education in IT. Berufsschule Baden
German, French
Github Skills (10)
automation10
bash10
automations10
docker10
go10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
dockers10
cicd10
linux9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/agent
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily focused on enhancing the Buildkite agent's CI/CD capabilities and expanding its platform support. They introduced CentOS as a supported Docker variant, modifying build scripts and metadata handling to accommodate it. Furthermore, the user refined the agent's configuration export, introducing environment variables for plugin name and configuration, and updated the API client interface.
continuous-deploymentgolangbuild-jobsjobsenvironments
moensch/moensch.github.io
Mar 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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