Sam. Design Engineer.

I'm a design engineer who loves sweating the small details while understanding the need to actually ship features to users. I've been on the tools for over 20 years, creating beautiful and functional web applications.

Work. Lots of nudged pixels.

2023 – Present
1 year, 5 months
Founding Engineer
Released — Australia (Remote)
2021 – 2023
2 years, 1 month
Senior Software Engineer (SDE3)
Amazon — Australia (Remote)
2020 – 2021
11 months
Principal Engineer
Search.io (Acquired by Algolia) — Australia (Remote)
2013 – 2021
8 years, 1 month
Head of Design
Selz (Acquired by Amazon) — Australia (Remote)
2012 – 2013
1 year
Senior UX Designer
Community Engine — Brookvale, Australia (Hybrid)
2011 – 2012
5 months
Senior UI Developer
Fairfax Media — Sydney, Australia
2007 – 2011
4 years, 5 months
Web Designer & Developer
E*TRADE Australia — Sydney, Australia
2004 – 2016
12 years
Web Designer & Developer
Self Employed, Freelance — UK & Australia

Projects. Fun stuff I've made.

Plyr

An open source media player that became popular with major brands such as the BBC, Peugeot, Toyota and SpaceX.

Stars on GitHub: 26.3K
Downloads via npm: 0
Requests per second: 0

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Rangetouch

A super tiny library to make `<input type='range'>` sliders work better on touch devices.

Stars on GitHub: 250
Downloads via npm: 0
Requests per second: 0

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For more projects, check out my GitHub profile