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Who is Sam

A full-stack engineer in Sydney with four years of experience and a computer science degree — currently building product at PropertyMe, and co-founding Ripple as its CTO. I like meaningful systems built from clean code and robust technical argument: TypeScript from top to bottom, Vue and Nuxt on the front, Effect.ts on the back, self-hosted wherever it makes sense.

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Skills

Languages
TypeScript
C#
F#
Python
SQL
Frontend
Vue / Nuxt
React / Next
Tailwind CSS
PWAs
Backend & data
.NET
Effect.ts
Hono
PostgreSQL
Entity Framework
Drizzle
REST / GraphQL
RabbitMQ
dbt
Infrastructure
AWS
Terraform
Pulumi
Docker
CI / CD
Practices
Event-driven design
ADRs & RFCs
Requirements gathering
Accessibility

Experience

  1. Mar 2026 — now

    Full Stack Software Engineer · PropertyMe

    Full-stack product engineering, hybrid out of Sydney.

  2. Jul 2025 — now

    Co-founder & CTO · Ripple

    A social volunteering platform, aiming to make volunteering a normal weekend activity.

    • Lead the technical direction and architecture of a two-sided marketplace connecting volunteers with community organisations.
    • Full-stack TypeScript — Effect.ts, Hono, Next.js and PostgreSQL — shipped as a mobile-first PWA targeting both app stores.
    • Own the infrastructure strategy on AWS, with Pulumi for IaC.
    • Established a modular monolith that allows future service extraction without premature microservices complexity.
    • Grew the platform from zero to a pre-launch waitlist of 100+ users and 10+ partner organisations.

  3. Sep 2025 — Mar 2026

    Full Stack Engineer · Netfront

    • Supported 40,000+ students across 1,000 schools by maintaining a multi-tenanted CMS for university health and well-being programmes.
    • Reduced page load times by 50% on critical user pathways by implementing and documenting server-side state management standards in Next.js.
    • Saved 10+ hours weekly by automating compliance reporting with AWS QuickSight dashboards aggregating data across several microservices.
    • Ensured WCAG 2 compliance through regular accessibility audits and remediation.
    • Embedded on-site as a forward-deployed developer for a key university client, delivering custom educational website solutions.

  4. Jan 2025 — Sep 2025

    Full Stack Engineer · irwinSolutions

    • Delivered 2M+ SMS and emails annually across 400+ pipelines in C#, with a data-driven Vue editor that let Ops build, debug and test workflows daily.
    • Designed a multi-tenant data warehouse in PostgreSQL and Entity Framework to store and analyse 100M+ records.
    • Streamlined onboarding for 100+ tenants through a management tool built in Nuxt and shadcn.
    • Cut memory usage by 80% and sped processing up 10x by refactoring a YAML-based DSL handling 4M+ rows a year.
    • Owned the technical direction of the flagship CRM product, balancing delivery speed, scalability and technical debt.
    • Enabled account managers to self-scale message throughput, unlocking $50k in bonus revenue.

  5. Aug 2022 — Dec 2024

    Junior Software Developer · irwinSolutions

    • Shifted deployments from weekly to daily by introducing CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Terraform and AWS.
    • Pioneered the use of ADRs and RFCs, streamlining complex decisions and improving cross-team alignment.
    • Adopted modern .NET practices — dependency injection and reusable NuGet packages — across several internal systems.
    • Ran user interviews and usability testing; the resulting UI refinements cut operator close time by 5%.

Education

  1. 2021 — 2024

    BSc Computer Science (Database Systems) · University of New South Wales

    Graduated with Distinction · WAM 81

    • Designed and programmed a modular, low-cost robot with autonomous movement alongside a small engineering team.
    • Built a menu ordering app with FastAPI, MongoDB and React, gathering requirements and setting up CI/CD.

  2. 2010 — 2020

    Higher School Certificate · Reddam House Sydney

    ATAR 98.7 · HSC All-Round Achiever

    • Ranked 2nd in cohort for Software Design and Development.
    • Contributed to academic outreach by tutoring younger students.

Achievements

  • Awarded $10K for a startup

    Won the Dean of Business Award at the 2025 UNSW Peter Farrell Cup for the tech startup Ripple.

  • UNSW Dean's Honour List

    Recognised on the Dean's Honour List in 2021 for outstanding academic results.

  • Open-source contribution

    Contributed to a widely used public F# error-handling library.

  • 'Is There A Better Way' Award

    Awarded for upholding company values in championing continuous improvement.