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Professionally, Sam has at times been a researcher in theoretical physics, a specialist in network management and multimedia R&D, a software engineer, a team leader and principal engineer in the area of security software, and a university lecturer teaching software development. He now runs his own IT development and consultancy company, specialising in mostly in Plone but increasingly in open source Java work.

An the home front, Sam is married to Debbi Robertson-Stainsby and has one adopted Ethiopian daughter who is 14 months old at the time of writing. He gets to work from home most of the time, with very flexible hours, and thus enjoys plenty of family time in their forest-encircled home.