Samuel Toh
Software Architect at WideSky
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Top SchoolSamuel Toh is a Brisbane-based software architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering fast, reliable, cloud-native systems across full stacks and microservices. He led architecture and cloud infrastructure for WideSky, pioneered its AWS public/private cloud design, and previously shaped billing, rating, and distributed services at CSG and VRT Systems. A pragmatic back-end engineer, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like Grafana—improving data source integrations and API endpoints for elasticity in observability pipelines. He combines hands-on coding in C++, C#, and modern web stacks with formal training through a Master’s (with distinction) and PhD-level computer science work. Known for sharing knowledge and pragmatic problem-solving, he brings both operational rigor and an eye for subtle API and query-edge cases that improve system resilience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Bachelor of information technology, Software architecture, Bachelor of information technology, Software architecture at Queensland University of TechnologyDiploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at Singapore Polytechnic
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Github Skills (36)
javascript10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
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elasticsearch10
functional-programming10
influxdb10
elasticsearch-api10
alerts9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Jan 2019 - May 2019
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 40 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Samuel contributed to the Grafana project by implementing and modifying back-end functionalities. They worked on improving data source integrations, specifically for Elasticsearch and InfluxDB, focusing on escaping special characters and interpolating variables within queries. Additionally, the user added a new PATCH endpoint for annotation operations, enhancing the API's functionality. Furthermore, they addressed several bugs and reviewed code related to other backend services, such as LDAP.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
SamuelToh/MongoUniversityProj
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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