Sam Van Oort
Principal Developer at AlayaCare
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSamuel Van Oort is a principal full-stack engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in scalability, performance and robust systems design across backend, DevOps and infrastructure. Based in Toronto, he leads technical strategy and execution for multi-team initiatives that halved API response times and enabled enterprise customer growth. He is highly productive with Python, SQL and JavaScript, and has deep operational expertise with Linux, Docker, Jenkins and AWS/GCP—plus hands-on experience introducing gRPC/protobufs and CI/CD improvements. A long-time contributor to Jenkins and the H2 database, his open-source work includes dramatic performance optimizations and fixes that helped large-scale Jenkins deployments and database storage routines. Samuel combines pragmatic production troubleshooting with architecture-level thinking, mentoring teams and building hiring and interview processes to raise engineering bar. He often prefers recruiter outreach with concrete role details, reflecting a focus on high-impact engagements.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at NC School of Science and MathematicsChemistry, Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (34)
continuous-integration10
python10
groovy10
testing10
databases10
workflow-engine10
java10
security10
javas10
performance-optimization10
sql10
jenkins-plugin10
yaml10
jenkins10
rest-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
svanoort/pyresttest
May 2014 - Feb 2018
Python Rest Testing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 462 commits, 86 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on building a REST testing framework using Python. They implemented basic HTTP request methods, created test structures, and developed a system for parsing YAML test files. The user's contributions include the integration of testing mechanisms such as header and body extraction and validators, as well as the design of a benchmarking system. The changes involve using both external dependencies like pycurl, as well as writing tests against the created framework, indicating a focus on functionality and quality assurance.
pythontesting
jenkinsci/pipeline-stage-view-plugin
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
Visualizes Jenkins pipelines
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:253 commits, 86 PRs, 169 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to the development of a REST API for a Jenkins pipeline view plugin. Their work included initial code for opensourcing, refactoring dependencies, and optimizing execution time finder methods. The user also implemented tests for huge flow nodes to improve the performance and capabilities of the API, with further work to resolve issues with incorrect API calls and improve handling of run duration and queueing. The user's focus was on enhancing API performance and functionality.
jenkins-pipeline
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.