Summary
Brian Sam-bodden is a Principal Applied AI Engineer and long-time technologist with 17+ years building scalable, distributed systems and developer-facing integrations, currently leading applied AI efforts at Redis. He combines deep Java ecosystem and rule-engine expertise (Drools, jBPM) with hands-on work in GenAI, vector databases, and RAG architectures, and created the widely used Redis OM Spring library. An entrepreneur and prolific OSS contributor, he founded and shipped event-driven platforms and led consulting engagements across finance, healthcare, and enterprise clients. He’s also an author and frequent conference speaker who mentors teams on architecture, Agile practices, and test-driven development. A Harvard Data Science ALM and a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, he pairs rigorous data skills and survival-in-the-trenches engineering with discipline learned on the mats.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), Data Science, Harvard University Extension School, Data Science, Master of Liberal Arts (ALM), Data Science, Harvard University Extension School, Data Science at Harvard University
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Ohio Wesleyan University
Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at Gracie Barra
Spanish