Sam Shiles
ClickHouse Consultant at Recodify
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Shiles is a pragmatic, hands-on technology leader and ClickHouse consultant with over two decades of experience delivering end-to-end, cloud-native systems for startups, scale-ups and large enterprises. He has founded and runs a software consultancy (Recodify) and served as CTO at an IoT-driven prop-tech that scaled to 300k devices and a successful exit, combining hardware, ML insights and SaaS at production scale. Sam blends deep engineering with architecture and team leadership—shipping resilient data platforms, high-availability services and performance optimisations across industries from energy trading to social housing. He has a strong track record modernising systems (Azure, microservices, CI/CD, TDD) and driving measurable business outcomes like user retention and operational scale. Notably, Sam is self-taught beyond school and repeatedly wins repeat consultancy engagements, reflecting a reputation for delivering pragmatic, high-impact solutions. Based in Bristol, he now focuses on high-performance analytics and ClickHouse platforms for real-time, large-scale data use cases.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
I didn't go to university, but I did well at school
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Github Skills (200)
cpp10
portable10
dependency-injection10
nodejs10
background-thread10
embedded10
side-bar10
mysql10
rabbitmq-client10
postgresql10
background-worker10
scheduled-tasks10
mongoose10
javascript10
hangfire10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Recodify/sms-global-node-client
Apr 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 10 months
homelync/homelink-stash
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
Rabbitmq data sync client
Contributions:13 PRs, 23 pushes, 16 branches in 6 months
data-syncrabbitmqamqpsync
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