About Me

Hello! I'm Sam, a Singaporean living in Perth, Australia.

I’ve always been interested in technology and how code can turn ideas into something real and interactive on the web. That curiosity led me to study IT, where I discovered how much I enjoyed programming and creating projects. I started with small scripts that made simple tasks easier and gradually moved on to building websites. This passion has stayed with me and keeps me occupied with bringing new ideas to life through coding.

I studied IT at Curtin University, where I took on difficult programming assignments and did okay. One of the most memorable experiences was my final year project, where I had to build a text corpus search engine. It wasn’t just a simple search, and had to handle large datasets efficiently by using remote procedure calls to split the workload across multiple processes and threads so results appeared very quickly. It was a test of both my coding ability and my understanding of distributed systems, and I really enjoyed the challenge. I spent a lot of time fine tuning the algorithms, experimenting with different methods, and testing with different types of inputs without throwing errors. My project not only worked perfectly, but also achieved the highest score in the unit, which I still have fond memories of.

After that, I've worked on websites for government, healthcare, banking, utilities and real estate industries. Each project came with its own challenges and helped me improve my skills, as I needed to learn new ways to put design and functionality together. One highlight was building a microstock photography site that involved e-commerce, complex business logic, and image processing, showing I can handle a range of technical requirements.

I also contributed to the developer community as an elected moderator on Stack Overflow in 2018. This platform provided me with the opportunity to not only give back to the developer community, but also contribute to improving the user experience through the development of userscripts that enhance the interface and streamline curation activities for moderators and community members.

Presently my special interests are Webflow (a web design platform) and Make (a web automation platform), and I am engaged with these communities, participating in discussions, sharing insights, and collaborating with fellow users. I regularly keep up with new features, experimenting ways to improve and simplify things, working with others, and learning and sharing my knowledge.

I’m always keen to put my skills and experience to work on new ideas and projects. My experience in building for the web and problem solving ability makes me valuable for anyone that needs somebody to understand your ideas and build solutions that work to your requirements.