Cam Saul
Principle Software Engineer And Technical Lead at Metabase
San Francisco, California, United States
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Cam Saul is a principal software engineer and technical lead based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building high-scale, cross-platform products and open-source infrastructure. He architected and maintained Metabase’s 100k+ line Clojure backend, including a custom query language and transpiler for a dozen SQL dialects plus MongoDB and Druid, and contributes backend features to the widely used Metabase project. A polyglot systems thinker, he’s shipped mobile apps with hundreds of thousands of users (MobileMuni, Zoosk, 5by) and built cross-platform C++ libraries, Django APIs, and complex data pipelines across Postgres, Mongo, ElasticSearch and AWS. His background spans Lisp-family languages, low-level C/6502 assembly and Emacs Lisp contributions, and he pairs hands-on coding with product-minded design (Microsoft/Core77 and Mozilla award winner). An avid snowboarder and self-described intermediate toucan tamer, he brings both technical depth and unexpected creativity to engineering leadership.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of California, Davis
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clojure-cli10
clojure10
sql10
database-design9
listview9
data-analysis8
do-while6
xcode6
xib6
nib6
android6
iphone6
emacs6
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 4307 reviews, 4509 commits in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Cam's commits focused on implementing and enhancing backend features within the Metabase project. They added joinable columns and developed Cljs/TS wrappers for join fields, handling various scenarios. The user also addressed code differences and added support for multiple table metadata. This involved modifying file structures, implementing features, and fixing existing bugs.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
metabase/druid-docker
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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