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Sam

sammcj
Melbourne, Australia

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

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  • 🎸 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.
@sammcj

$10/month pays for half of the beans required to sustain my monthly caffeine intake which directly correlates with my ability to support multiple projects and communities.

Featured work

  1. sammcj/github-app-installation-token

    Generates Github tokens using a Github App install

    JavaScript 5
  2. sammcj/storage

    Open Source, Code Controlled, Enterprise Ready SSD Storage

    HTML 11
  3. sammcj/zsh-bootstrap

    bootstrap my zsh shell

    Shell 10
  4. sammcj/CO2-Logger

    Monitor CO2 concentration using MH-Z19 (or the older Z14) sensor connected with UART.

    Python 4
  5. sammcj/smcleod

    smcleod.net

    HTML 3
  6. ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

    Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

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