Samuel Waggoner is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from the Bay Area, with hands-on roles at Twitter, VMware, Pivotal, and startups. He favors collaborative, test-driven workflows—pair programming, empathy, and strong team dynamics are core to how he delivers reliable software. Technically versatile, he has contributed to high-profile open-source infrastructure like Cloud Foundry UAA, improving Kubernetes deployments, metrics scraping, and build tooling. Samuel combines deep backend and DevOps expertise with a researcher’s attention to data and migration risks honed during early NLP and large-scale file-retrieval work at Indiana University. Colleagues describe him as a steady, team-first engineer who prioritizes maintainability and observable production systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:78 commits, 19 PRs, 50 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Samuel's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the Kubernetes deployment configurations for the UAA service. They implemented features such as configuring resource requests for pods, adding annotations for Prometheus scraping, and configuring the statsd-exporter for metrics collection. The user also addressed various issues related to the Kubernetes setup, including fixing tests and modifying volume mounts. Furthermore, they updated the Gradle version, indicating involvement in build and dependency management.
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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