Sam Vente
Cloud Data Engineer
Rijswijk, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Vente is a Cloud Data Engineer with 10 years of experience building data-driven systems and shipping practical engineering solutions across research, government, and industry in the Netherlands. He blends a formal mathematics background and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with hands-on roles from ETL and data science to cloud-native data engineering, currently delivering data platforms at Deltares. Sam has a track record of applied research—published work on automated negotiation—and contributes to open-source tooling, notably improving backend content management and pagination in the popular Zola static site generator. He prefers steady team roles over freelance or consultancy work, and focuses on sustainable, reproducible data products that support real-world decision making such as food sustainability and public-sector analytics.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Univeristy of St. AndrewsBachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, 7, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, 7 at Leiden University
English, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
site-generator10
rust10
static-site-generator10
markdown-it9
markdown9
tera8
content-management7
content-management-system7
blog-engine6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getzola/zola
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on improving the Zola static site generator's backend functionality. Their contributions involved resolving issues related to taxonomy handling, specifically addressing the merging of taxonomies with identical slugs and ensuring proper permalink generation. Furthermore, they implemented pagination features, including reversing page order, and made adjustments to the handling of translations. The user's work directly enhanced Zola's core content management capabilities.
cmseverythingstatic-siterustblog-engine
savente93/cite-me-bro
May 2024 - Mar 2025
A Simple CLI Tool for BibTeX Reference Formatting over stdout
Contributions:9 PRs, 183 pushes, 14 branches in 9 months
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