Summary
Sam Griek is a founder and seasoned software leader based in Barcelona with 5 years in startup leadership and over two decades of hands-on engineering across data-intensive enterprises. He designs and builds agentic AI systems at Prospekto after founding EaglEyes AI, combining entrepreneurial drive with deep experience in cloud-native architectures and big data from a long tenure at Nielsen. His background spans backend systems, distributed processing (Spark, Hadoop, EMR), cloud platforms (AWS ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda), and production ML/data pipelines, evidencing both systems-level architecture and implementation skill. Sam has led engineering teams, shipping critical reporting and weighting engines, and shifted legacy Java/Cloudera stacks into modern Python and containerized deployments. He pairs product-facing leadership with a pragmatic focus on observability, CI/CD, and secure deployments—skills honed migrating large-scale broadcast and analytics systems. Based in Barcelona, he brings an uncommon combination of telecom/media domain expertise and current agentic AI product-building.
4 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Central Florida