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Sam - Senior Frontend Engineer - Sydney
About Me
Hi I’m Sam, A Frontend Systems Engineer.
I’m a Systems Engineer with over six years of experience designing and building performance critical systems for constrained environments.
While my primary stack is React, TypeScript and Redux, I’m a web purist at heart and regularly go beyond frameworks when the problem demands it.
Outside of work, I’m usually raising my two boys, out on my bike, or at my desk making something with software, hardware or keeping my 3D printer busy.
My Work
TV Platforms Engineer, Stan
I architect and build the engine behind Australia's largest home grown streaming service. Delivering 2024 Olympics, live sport and video on demand to 1.6M+ users across 175+ platforms as part of a 6 person core team.
I specialize in high stakes architecture and performance in resource constrained environments.
React
TypeScript
Node.js
Shaka Player
Internal Tooling
Frontend System Design
Developer Experience
Frameworks Design
Webpack
OTT, Smart TV, Console
Browser Compatibilit y
Web Performance Optimisation
Legacy rewrite
Browsersaurus, Personal project
A Chrome extension game where every website you visit spawns a unique collectible dinosaur. Built solo to explore the challenge of running a fully featured creature collection game within browser extension constraints. No native modules, limited storage and deterministic skin generation.
React
TypeScript
PixiJS
Zustand
Extension Development
Spine3D
Vite
Playwright-Embedded, Personal project
An automated testing framework solving a previously unsolved problem: running E2E tests on real hardware that uses embedded browsers. This project enables dynamic multi device test orchestration without CDP, hardware, manual device configs or awkward native platform test integration.
Playwright
Custom Tooling
TypeScript
Smart TV Testing
Developer Experience
Frontend Engineer, Salt LMS
Led a frontend modernisation project award winning LMS serving 300K+ users. Rebuilt 22 year old SCORM course player from legacy JavaScript into React, architected authentication system, and shipped complete UI redesign while maintaining backward compatibility.
React
TypeScript
Hooks & Context
Greenfield
Legacy rewrite
Frontend Engineer, Opstar (Solentive)
Built real-time weather visualization for aircraft rescue coordination system used by emergency response teams. Integrated NOAA data to display wind patterns and altitude-aware forecasts for ground teams responding to downed aircraft in high-pressure scenarios.