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DevOps Proponent, Platform Engineer, Music Geek || @[email protected] || 📝 Words are my own or somebody else's 🖖

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/sammcj

Name: Sam
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Company: @DigIO
Kind: user
Followers: 104
Following: 92
Total stars: 548
Repositories count: 220
Created at: 2022-11-04T06:31:51.648Z
Updated at: 2024-05-01T10:34:33.688Z
Last synced at: 2024-05-01T10:33:58.811Z

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Hi I’m Sam 👋🏻
I'm a 1x Engineer in the Platform/Automation/DevOps space, Open Source advocate and community maintainer.

Currently working as a (100% remote!) Platform Engineering Lead, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Website: smcleod.net

Contact

🐘 Mastodon
🧑‍💻 Github
🦤 Twitter Archive
🦃 Twitter
👔 LinkedIn

Interests
Work

💼 See my Digital CV.

Personal

🎸 Discovering new music, especially digging into niche subgenres to find the hidden gems.
👨🏻‍🎤 Going to gigs.
📻 HiFi, I'm an audio geek with lots of gear.
🚶‍♂️ Walking, often while listening to new music.
📚 Reading, mostly Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction and Biographies, Audiobooks my go-to.
🎮 Gaming (not too frequently though!), mostly multiplayer strategic FPS such as Hell Let Loose with friends.
📺 Film and Television, especially Sci-Fi and British Comedy.
🧑🏼‍💻 Technology, both hardware and software engineering, IoT, and automation gadgets.
🐈 Cats, especially Piper.
💡 IoT / home automation.
🚗 Road trips.

Check out the Links page on my site for some of my favourite services, tools and media.

🔋 Things that give me energy

🏡 Remote work and remote first organisations.
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Building high performance platform and software delivery teams and team culture.
🙋 Open communication.
🎷 Music collection and discovery.
🔬 Adenosine Triphosphate.

🪫 Things that drain my energy

💼 Needless bureaucracy.
🔐 Disempowered teams.
🏢 Working from an office.
📈 Slow feedback loops.