Welcome, my name is Sam and I’m a Software Engineer in Test based in
Sydney, Australia. I speak at tech conferences, lead Sydney Testers, conduct training workshops and stream live testing on twitch. I’m also a developer evangelist for YOW! Conference. I hope you enjoy exploring my blog.
Services
- Professional sketch noting for conferences, for example YOW! Sydney 2018
- Live exploratory testing of your app/tool or website via twitch.tv/BugHunterSam
- Public speaking mentoring
- Technical writing
I often run my “Risk framework for UI automation” as a free lunchtime learning/brown bag session with companies. I also enjoy playing the testing dice game with teams.
Blogs
I regularly blog about
Some of my most visited blogs are:
- Soap Opera Testing
- Evolution of my CV
- 5 tips for becoming more technical
- How to run a bug bash
- Tips on giving technical presentations
- Visual communication with sketchnotes
- Getting started with Google cloud and Big Data analytics
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More about me
2 Parts Hipster Bogan
In my spare time I enjoy brewing beer and riding my motorbike. “Yeah Mate”, that makes me sound pretty bogan and I’m ok with this. However I consider myself a hipster bogan because I like craft beer, pretentious coffee and avocado on toast.
Can someone actually be a hipster bogan?
I dunno, I’m from Tasmania, so what do I even know? Australians like to joke about Tasmanians. Something about being stupid, inbred and having two heads.
1 part general nerd
I enjoy tinkering with electronics, robotics and I run a shadowrun pen and paper roll play game. Think dungeons and dragons but cyberpunk set in the future with technology, gangs, magic and giant evil corporations.
You want moar?
Wow, thanks for scrolling this far. I take it you want more gossip? My personal values are:
- Community
- Adding value to others
- Experiences over things
- Sustainable living
Community drives nearly everything I do. It’s through connecting with people that I get my drive and passion for nearly everything. The sustainable living is more of an inspirational goal. It can mean financial, mental well being and environmental all combined. I also value transparency but it feels weird to have it as a personal value and there’s cases of taking transparency too far.
Wow you just keep scrolling?
I use to be morbidly obese, I had gastric sleeve surgery in October 2016. I’m now only mildly obese (depending on what day I wake up). You can see some of my fat transformation photos here.
I also broke my ankle at the end of 2017. It sucked balls and contributed towards a relapse of depression but it’s helped me feel grateful for some things that I took for granted. If we meet in person I can show you my kick arse scar. Apparently chic’s dig scars.
I once rode my motorbike in the Sydney mardigras with Dykes on Bikes. I might be in a hetro-normalish relationship but we are both bi. That’s no secret. I’m also weirdly fascinated by shibari rope art. I don’t recommend googling that at work. Scandalous, I know.