Sam is a professional with 7+ years of data engineering and analytics experience in media, cloud communications, financial technology, and health care. He's great at helping companies create data collection and processing tools for high volume, velocity, veracity and variety. Sam expertise includes designing and building scalable, fault-tolerant products, such as data platform and ingestion frameworks, self-serve analytics and reporting systems, data lakes, and data warehouses on-premises or in the AWS ecosystem. He delivers low latency data processing systems and is skilled at system design, data modeling, ETL, stream processing, and product analytics. He is capable of building data processing systems using diverse components, including Spark, HDFS, S3, Lambda, Hive, DynamoDB, and Redis. Sam capably defines analytics charters and helps organizations move towards data-driven decision making.