Samuel Attard

Building @ Anthropic

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

Engineer @ Notion, previously at Slack & Atlassian. Core Maintainer of Electron, contributor to Node.js, Chromium, and more... Solving cool problems and building cool things.

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • Core Maintainer at ElectronJS
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

    As a long-time contributor and admin of the Electron project, I’ve helped shape the foundation of modern desktop apps like VS Code, Slack, Notion, 1 Password and Figma. My work spans everything from building core APIs—like dark mode support and contextBridge—to designing key security features such as Electron Fuses and ASAR Integrity. Beyond writing code, I help maintain much of Electron’s core infrastructure and work to ensure the health of the broader open source community around it. Whether through mentoring contributors, reviewing pull requests, or evolving our governance, I focus on making Electron more secure, performant, and sustainable for the long haul.

  • Engineering at Notion
    Oct 2024 - Jun 2025 · 9 mos

  • Slack (5 yrs 9 mos)
    • Staff Software Engineer
      Feb 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Founding member of the team responsible for Slacks runtime powering our desktop apps on Windows, macOS and Linux. Writing a combination of C++ and JS to build the future of web on the desktop. Electron powers desktop apps all over the world and this team at Slack is responsible for a lot of it's success together with our fellow Electron maintainers from across the industry. Focusing on performance, security, stability and everything else end users expect from a desktop app.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Jan 2019 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Atlassian (Greater Sydney Area)
    • Software Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 · 4 mos

    • Junior Software Engineer
      Nov 2017 - Sep 2018 · 11 mos

    • Software Engineer Intern
      Nov 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo