Sam Mccaffrey
Senior Data Engineer
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Mccaffrey is a Senior Data Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable data platforms, APIs, and analytics products across startups and large tech companies. He has led end-to-end data infrastructure work—warehouses, pipelines, observability, and customer-facing dashboards—while also shipping microservices and streaming AI chat systems using FastAPI, k8s, and BigQuery. A repeat founding engineer and founder of Synapse, he focuses on simplifying the data stack and building the tools he wished existed, blending product sensibility with deep technical ownership. At Meta and multiple startups he designed governance and privacy-aware systems for sensitive data and enabled non-technical teams to self-serve analytics. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, Sam pairs an MS in Business Analytics with a physics BS and a practical knack for turning messy production data into reliable, user-facing insights.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Business Analytics, Master of Science (M.S.) Business Analytics at W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State UniversityCactus Shadows High School
English
Github Skills (17)
blackboard8
flask-application7
flask6
portal6
flask-cors6
cors6
resource-sharing5
plex5
crawler5
flask-extensions5
event-data5
scraper5
python5
movie4
api3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
smccaffrey/plex-etl
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
A light weight flask application for loading media into Plex
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 months
light-weightpythonlightplexflask
ratalabs/LMSA-core
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:257 commits, 8 PRs, 81 pushes in 8 months
web-portalpythonblackboardportalautomation
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