Sam Ayres

Summary

A full-stack engineer turned technology lead, with a background in healthcare and pharma agency work. Over the past four years I've helped grow a development team, the processes, and the technical foundations that now support multiple brand teams and global pharmaceutical clients.

Experience

Clients: AbbVie, Axsome, Novo Nordisk, Servier

• Manage 2 direct reports while overseeing a broader group of developers across domestic and international locations, across 10+ pharmaceutical and healthcare brands, partnering with project management and account teams on scoping, budgeting, and delivery.
• Led technology across pharma and healthcare brand teams, embedding early in each project to surface risks before they become blockers and keep delivery on track.
• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines supporting 100+ project deliveries per year, bringing consistency and repeatability to project releases across all brand environments.
• Introduced Kanban workflows and Git branching strategies that improved cross-team collaboration and reduced late-stage merge conflicts.
• Created internal automation tooling for email, banner, and site deployment using Gulp, MJML, and custom APIs — automating manual work across the team.
• Established hiring processes, engineering standards, and code review culture from the ground up as the department scaled.

Clients: Acadia, Agile Therapeutics

• Delivered compliant digital experiences for pharmaceutical and healthcare brands, working closely with medical, legal, and regulatory teams throughout the review process.
• Developed modular, accessible React single-page applications with optimized state management and improved performance for better user experience.
• Modernized legacy Drupal codebases by transitioning to Symfony microservices, improving maintainability and overall system performance.
• Built and maintained RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and reusable UI components to enable scalable and maintainable frontend architecture.