Brendan Samek
Head Of Engineering at Build Canada
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolBrendan Samek is a Head of Engineering and founding technologist with 10 years of experience building and scaling data-driven SaaS and AI products from startup inception to growth. He has led engineering at multiple ventures—designing fault-tolerant distributed scrapers and data pipelines that processed tens of millions in claims, integrating ML models into production, and automating e-commerce customer service with AI. Brendan blends hands-on full‑stack execution (React, Flask, Python, AWS) with product-focused systems thinking, repeatedly improving developer velocity, reducing operational costs, and shipping features that measurably increased platform coverage and retention. He played key technical roles in helping two startups raise seed funding and drove engineering practices like CI/CD, plugin architectures, and cost-optimized build pipelines. Based in Edmonton and completing a Computer Engineering degree at the University of Alberta, he’s focused on empowering students and residents with tools to make better decisions—bringing entrepreneurial grit and a proven track record of turning complex data problems into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Alberta
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (114)
serverless-applications10
lambda10
aws-sam10
sam10
transform10
serverless-application-model9
aws-serverless9
firebase9
serverless9
aws9
aws-lambda9
aws-cloudformation9
database8
todoist8
auth8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
xrendan/marsweeper
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 21 days
gameminesweeperiterativeeggmartian
xrendan/UoA-Course-Scraper
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
pythonscrapydisplaysuniversity-of-albertascrapes
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