Sam Bobb
Founder & CTO at Kaavio
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Bobb is a founder and CTO with 11 years of engineering and data leadership experience, now building AI-powered e-commerce at Kaavio from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He combines hands-on systems and data engineering—designing ETL/ELT pipelines, analytics tracking, and experimentation platforms—with people-first leadership that scaled teams and drove product-led growth at Octopart and other startups. His work spans search ranking, revenue-driving sales tools, and analytics infrastructure (Redshift, DBT, Kinesis, Looker), translating complex data into actionable business outcomes. A pragmatic maker who started in hardware and video production, he brings a systems mindset and an unusual blend of product empathy and low-level technical fluency to early-stage product problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University
Github Skills (100)
codegen10
graphql-tools10
dataloader10
golang9
neo4j9
artemis9
graphiql9
looker9
migration9
logical-replication9
migration-tool9
go-generate9
graphql9
graphql-schema9
near-real-time8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
samjbobb/mammoth
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Synchronize Postgres to Snowflake in near-real time with one simple application
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 months
real-timesynchronizationsqldata-engineeringnear-real-time
octopart/lookerbot
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Lookerbot lets you access all your Looker data from Slack! Super fun!
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
slackbotslack-botlooker
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