Sam Bail
Course Instructor at Third Place Bar
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bail is a data engineer and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building modern data platforms, guiding architecture choices, and turning complex healthcare and marketplace data into useful products. He has led platform teams, hired and mentored engineers, and shipped pipelines and transformation layers across startups and established organizations. A published educator, Sam develops and delivers technical courses for LinkedIn Learning and O’Reilly, and has improved user experience on notable OSS projects like Great Expectations through focused documentation contributions. He founded Bright Nights Social, growing a 35K-following sober-curious community and producing 100+ events, demonstrating an ability to blend technical leadership with grassroots community building. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, Sam pairs rigorous research roots in knowledge representation with practical data engineering delivery. Based in Berlin and fluent in German, he brings a global perspective shaped by long residencies in the UK and NYC.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at The University of ManchesterBSc Media Informatics, BSc Media Informatics at HTWK Leipzig
Github Skills (3)
great-expectations10
documentation10
airflow5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
great-expectations/great_expectations
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Always know what to expect from your data.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:101 reviews, 37 commits, 144 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving and clarifying documentation within the Great Expectations project. Their contributions include fixing formatting issues in upgrade instructions, clarifying the use of environment variables in configuration files, and adding a guide for running checkpoints in Airflow. They also made updates to existing how-to guides and fixed broken links. This suggests a focus on improving the user experience through clear and accurate documentation.
pythondatadata-integritydatacleanerpipeline-testing
spbail/slides
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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