Sam Chapin
Chief Data Architect
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Chapin is a Chief Data Architect and hands-on engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale data systems, from TB–PB semistructured lakes to OLTP backends. He grew a team from single digits to 200+, re-architected legacy platforms for efficiency and migration, and regularly ships high-throughput batch and streaming NLP pipelines and GPU-backed LLM deployments. A pragmatic type-system and performance enthusiast, Sam codes daily in JVM and Python ecosystems (Scala/Java) and leverages Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, and k8s to turn prototypes into production. He combines bottom-up, evidence-driven leadership with quick experimentation and a “fail fast” mentality to align teams and deliver predictable velocity. Based in Santa Barbara, he pairs curiosity about decentralized computing and graph-scale processing with a persistent focus on sustainability and mentoring engineers to level up.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at UCSBAA Math, AA Math at Santa Barbara City College
Github Skills (53)
code-behind10
sbt-native-packager10
spark9
giter89
java9
aws-lambda9
graal-native9
data-lake8
api8
code-generation8
rest8
sbt8
git8
graalvm7
goa7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sbchapin/quickstart-scala-sbt.g8
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
HGData/semantic-release-config
Jan 2022 - May 2023
Global configuration for Semantic Release
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
semantic-release
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