📱 Sam Connelly

📱 Sam Connelly

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About

I enjoy helping software engineering teams own their quality engineering practices. From CI/CD pipelines to performance testing. Available for contracting, training and coaching.

I've presented and keynoted at tech conferences all over the world. Mostly presenting on quality engineering practices and mental health/career growth. Hosted live pair testing sessions on youtube.

I’m comfortable with k6, Gatlin and Jmetre as performance testing tools. I worked on systems that have used AWS, Azure and google cloud services. I’ve also built and maintained test environments, their data and their build pipelines.

I’ve worked with Java, c#, typescript and node backends. I have a learning mindset and can pick up any new backend technology quickly. I’ve worked with mobile apps too.

I’m NOT a web developer/automator. I can automate web UI but prefer not to.

Quality software is easier to sell, maintain and enhance. It's cheaper to build quality in compared to adding it later. My specialties are mobile app development and micro service architecture.

My content can be found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/samconnelly

Mobile apps I've worked on:
- CFS's Superannaution investment app
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.cfs.mobile

- Insight Timer's meditation app
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotlightsix.zentimerlite2

- A popular mapping and navigation app

- Tyro's banking app
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tyro.merchantbanking

- And many other health/transport focused apps


Community is one of my core values and I'm active in the tech scene. I've worked with startups, high tech companies, government and big finance corporations over a 10 year tech career. Currently studying financial advice and working on a ecommerce platform.

I'm am international speaker and an avid blogger on all things technology, software testing, mobile apps and life:
https://bughuntersam.com/

Email me at
sam@thebughunter.com.au

You can book me in for a FREE 30 minute online consultation here:
https://calendly.com/bughuntersam/chat

He/Him on the internet because I hate gendered advertising. And it’s rule 30 of the internet.

ABN 27 649 424 715

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Education

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    grad diploma in financial advice at Tafe NSW

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    DevOps bootcamp 6 month course

Volunteer Experience

  • Leader

    Sydney Testers Meetup Group

    - 4 years 2 months

    Science and Technology

    I support the committee to help run events for Testers in Sydney http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Testers/ . We have over 1900 members. We often get international speakers who are thought leaders in the testing space. I help connect with sponsors, organise events and am the point of contact for when stuff needs to happen. We have a main event every month and we aim to have many side events to engage different skills/interests of Sydney Testers.

  • President of the UTAS chapter

    President of the UTAS chapter

    Robogals Global

    - 3 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    Robogals is a student run organisation that promotes engineering and technology to young kids through Lego robotics workshops with the aim of getting more women in STEM.

    I started the UTas chapter and taught robotics to over 1000 kids with no funding

  • Radio Talk Show Host

    Radio Talk Show Host

    Edge Radio 99.3FM

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    I hosted my own community radio show called "chat with an engineer". I interviewed engineers who work in our community and spoke about cool engineering projects

Licenses & Certifications

Projects

  • Sydney Education start up weekend

    Assisted a team that wants to do what github did to open source projects but for education course and curriculum materials

    Other creators
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  • TiE women Create-a-thon

    Was the technology consultant on a team that came second, we are now developing the idea into an app

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  • Japanese study program

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    A personal program to assist in studying Japanese written in c# using visual studio.

  • Lego Exploration and navigation

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    Mapping and navigation using lego mindstorm robots and Java programming

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    • Sofie Lang
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  • Lego NXT line following

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    • Sofie Lang
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  • Nao Robot Exploration

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    Exploring sensor behavior and walking with the Nao robot.

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    • Sofie Lang
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  • GovHack 2013

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    A group of previously extinct individuals got together for the first time at GovHackTas in 2013. We developed a website in two days where you can see the Storm Water system feeding directly into the Derwent River. The main data source was provided by the Glenorchy City Council. You can also monitor your own environment for pollution and share it on our website.

    You can check out our blog here at http://tiger.scriptforge.org/blog/

    Update: We managed to get 3 awards for our efforts,…

    A group of previously extinct individuals got together for the first time at GovHackTas in 2013. We developed a website in two days where you can see the Storm Water system feeding directly into the Derwent River. The main data source was provided by the Glenorchy City Council. You can also monitor your own environment for pollution and share it on our website.

    You can check out our blog here at http://tiger.scriptforge.org/blog/

    Update: We managed to get 3 awards for our efforts, best use of Python, best use of Glenorchy City Council Data and best use of Live Data.

    Other creators
    See project

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Japanese

    Limited working proficiency

  • Swedish

    Elementary proficiency

  • Sign Languages (australian)

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • The indus Entrepreneur's (TiE)

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  • Australian Computing Society

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  • The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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