Bob Samuels
Director Of Analytics & Data Engineering
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBob Samuels is a data and product leader with 11 years of experience building analytics platforms and data teams, now serving as Director of Analytics & Data Engineering at Grafana Labs. He combines hands-on engineering roots—spanning Python, Airflow, dbt, ELT/ETL migrations, and cloud warehouses—with product management and an MBA to translate business problems into strategic data products. Bob has led multiple stack modernizations (Redshift/Snowflake, Matillion, Meltano/Dagster) and driven adoption of data best practices like row-level security and data quality scorecards. He excels at hiring and coaching small high-performing teams while partnering across product, sales, and ops to deliver measurable outcomes such as retention and usage improvements. Comfortable moving between tactical pipeline work and executive strategy, he also has a history of bringing enterprise BI and data catalog solutions into production. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he blends analytic rigor with pragmatic marketing training to prioritize what truly moves the business.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management, MBA Management at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterBS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Colorado State UniversityBachelor's Degree Kinesiology and Exercise Science, Bachelor's Degree Kinesiology and Exercise Science at University of MinnesotaGeneral Studies, General Studies at Pragmatic Marketing Courses
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Github Skills (35)
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
swift6
firebase6
xcode6
go6
grafana6
firebase-realtime-database6
visualize6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/dbt_leaner_query
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
bobsamuels/bigbrother
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
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