Samuel Stewart

Amsterdam, Netherlands
contact@sam.cisamdotci

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Currently employed as a Site Reliability Engineer. Proficient in tooling like Kubernetes, scripting, and AWS. My expertise in troubleshooting and problem-solving lets me thrive in critical and complex environments.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

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Fresha↗

9 mos

Site Reliability Engineer

Mar 2025 - Present
  • Working in a team to develop the platform's Infrastructure-as-Code, managing all non-functional platform aspects (performance, scalability, resilience, etc.)
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IMC Trading↗

6 mos

Trading Reliability Engineer

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
  • Ensured continuity of critical trading operations, prioritising resolution of system issues with a sense of urgency
  • Worked with technology and trading teams to continually evolve and deploy system architecture
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  • Developed automation tools for system orchestration and upkeep
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Fresha↗

3 yrs

Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 2023 - Aug 2024
  • Worked in a team to develop the platform's Infrastructure-as-Code, managing all non-functional platform aspects (performance, scalability, resilience, etc.)

IT Support Engineer

Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
  • Provided IT support to a 300-person organisation as a sole member of the department, including on-call responsibilities for remote locations.

Junior IT Support Engineer

Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
  • Handled service issues and requests, document procedures and tutorials.
  • Managed IT assets globally, including hardware procurement: macOS, Chrome OS, and Windows devices.
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  • Automated key processes using Python, Javascript, and Bash: e.g. the on/off-boarding of company staff members.
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Ingenuity London↗

3 yrs 5 mos

Assistant Database/CRM Manager

Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
  • Collected and processed lead data, and maintained data integrity in the CRM through import, validation, and cleansing processes.
  • Produced KPI reports with BI software from CRM data to be used by BDs.
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  • Automated tasks through scripting, including web scraping with Python and data verification with VBA in Microsoft Excel.
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UCL, Office of the Vice Provost↗

2 mos

Academic Surveys Analyst

Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
  • Performed qualitative data analysis, categorising thousands of comments from student surveys.
  • Developed scripts in Python to automate the time-intensive process by detecting key words and phrases.
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UCL Culture↗

1 yr 6 mos

Outreach Surveys Analyst

Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
  • Produced frameworks to evaluate the long-term impact on school students of outreach programmes run by UCL Culture.
  • Delivered findings in both written reports and infographics designed in Photoshop that were used in funding applications and annual reports.

EDUCATION

DipHE, Archaeology

2017 - 2021
University College London
  • 67% average in 1st year, 68% average in 2nd year

A Levels

2015 - 2017
Ysgol Friars
  • Chemistry (A), History (B), English Literature (B), Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate (B)

GCSEs

2014 - 2015
Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi
  • 10 A-C including Maths (A) and English (B)

FURTHER LEARNING

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Aug 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Completed with overall mark of 75%

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Jul 2022
The Linux Foundation
  • Completed with overall mark of 91%

Terraform Associate Certification

Jun 2022
HashiCorp
  • Completed with overall mark of 94%

SKILLS

Experienced with Python, shell/bash scripting, and Typescript, particularly for toil reduction and optimisation.
Kubernetes administration: cluster monitoring; deployment automation; and vast troubleshooting experience.
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code. Capable of implementing complex solutions for maintaining / developing architecture state.