Hi there

My name is Sam, and, sometimes, I like to write.

My hobbies are chess, poker, riding bikes, hiking, computer science, and being a good person.

I am currently working as a Data Engineer at Amazon.

My work includes:

  • AWS (Redshift, SNS/SQS, Glue, EMR, Lambda, etc..) managed via CDK
  • Database Administration/Maintenance (Multiple Redshift Clusters, RDS, and Dynamo DB)
  • I read/write a lot of SQL (mostly in Redshift which is a fork of Postgres or EMR using the Spark SQL API) also Python, TypeScript, and Java
  • Creating batch & streaming data pipelines, data modeling
  • Develop LP models, simulations, etc… to optimize small aspects of our supply chain

What I’m learning about/deep diving right now:

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“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson