Sam Wyness

Software Engineer & Product Designer

Sam Wyness

About

10 years building digital products.

Lately that's fundraising apps, location-based games and mapping software. I've worked on both sides of the product, from shaping how it looks and feels to engineering how it works. Sometimes independently, sometimes leading a small team.

If ten years has taught me anything, it's that design and engineering were never meant to be a trade-off.

Raised for charity through fundraising apps I've engineered and shipped.
$25M+
Steps tracked in a single month through an app I built. That's over 200 laps of the Earth.
12B+
Countries with players claiming turf in a game I designed, within its first year.
87

Selected Work (4)

  • MapTag

    Mapping Software

    Coming soon

    Building an offline-first mapping tool for measuring land, mapping boundaries, and tagging locations.

    • iOS & Android
    • Expo
    • Mapbox
    Company
    Mapped Outdoors
  • District

    The Running Game

    2026View project (opens in new tab)

    Led the design and engineering of a location-based movement game, now played across 87 countries.

    • iOS & Android
    • Expo
    • Convex
    • Mapbox
    • H3
    Company
    District Technologies
  • Steptember

    Steps for Charity

    2023-2026View project (opens in new tab)

    Built and shipped a charity fundraising app that tracked over 12 billion steps in a single month.

    • iOS & Android
    • HealthKit
    • Health Connect
    Company
    Cerebral Palsy Alliance
  • Matt Bradley Designs

    Building Design & Drafting Studio

    2024View project (opens in new tab)

    Designed and developed an image-led website that lets the studio's architectural work speak for itself.

    • Web
    • Contentful
    • Gatsby
    Company
    Matt Bradley Designs

Skillset

  1. Mobile Apps

    Apps people open every day. I take them from first commit to the App Store, then keep them running.

    • React Native
    • Expo
    • Reanimated
    • TypeScript
    • HealthKit
    • Health Connect
  2. Web Apps & Sites

    I build web apps, dashboards and sites that load fast, read well and actually turn up in search.

    • Next.js
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • HTML
    • CSS
  3. Product & UX Design

    I design knowing what it'll take to build, so what ships matches the mockup.

    • Figma
    • Rive
    • Lottie
    • Blender
  4. Design Systems

    Shared components, design tokens and patterns that keep design and development in sync as products grow.

    • Figma
    • Storybook
    • Design Tokens
  5. Backend & Infrastructure

    I architect and build the systems behind the scenes. APIs, databases and cloud infrastructure. The stuff that keeps everything running.

    • Node.js
    • .NET
    • PostgreSQL
    • Convex
    • Supabase
    • AWS

History (6)

  1. Apr 2025 - present

    Lead Software Engineer

    District Technologies (remote)

  2. Mar 2024 - May 2025

    Senior Mobile Engineer

    Medenterprises (remote)

  3. Aug 2021 - Apr 2025

    Senior Software Engineer

    District Technologies (remote)

  4. Apr 2020 - Aug 2021

    Senior Frontend Developer

    Youi (remote)

  5. Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

    Frontend Developer (contract)

    RACQ (Brisbane, Australia)

  6. May 2016 - Jun 2019

    Frontend Developer

    miiFile & iCompLii (Sunshine Coast, Australia)

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