Sam Dengler
Distinguished Engineer at Delta Air Lines
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Dengler is a Distinguished Engineer with 15+ years building scalable, event-driven and serverless systems across Fortune 500 enterprises and cloud providers. He has led AI adoption and developer productivity initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, designed enterprise serverless strategy and Java governance at Capital One, and drove major cost and scalability wins as a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. Sam combines hands-on DevOps and backend engineering—contributing to well-known serverless workshops and CI/CD pipelines—with program-level product leadership, including launching a CTO Pattern Marketplace and a firmwide AI training curriculum. His work spans architecture, curriculum design, and durable execution platforms, and he has a track record of turning proofs-of-concept into company-wide standards. Based in Atlanta, he pairs deep technical craft (from early Perl log tooling to modern Lambda optimizations) with a talent for scaling knowledge across organizations.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (15)
lambda10
serverless10
javascript10
lambdas10
aws10
devops10
cicd10
apidoc9
dynamodb9
api9
amazon-dynamodb9
nodejs8
testing8
terraformer4
terraform4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-serverless-workshops
May 2017 - Aug 2022
Code and walkthrough labs to set up serverless applications for Wild Rydes workshops
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 64 PRs, 73 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam contributed to multiple DevOps and backend aspects of the serverless workshops. This included implementing and testing functions with AWS Lambda, configuring continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and writing tests for API endpoints. The user also modified existing application code for the Unicorn API, demonstrating involvement in the overall architecture. The user also refactored modules to use CodeStar.
serverless-applicationsserverlessawslambda
abaird986/config-rules-workshop-in-progress
Nov 2017 - Feb 2023
staging area for the config rules workshop content.
Contributions:2 PRs in 5 years 4 months
stagingconfigrulesworkshop
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