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.