Sam Verhasselt
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at LiveRamp
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSam Verhasselt is a senior software engineer and team lead with 13 years of experience designing and modernizing large-scale data platforms, currently leading engineering at LiveRamp in San Francisco. He specializes in migrating file-based datasets to warehouse-native formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet) and decoupling storage, compute, and table definitions so multiple query engines can operate concurrently. Sam has hands-on experience building multi-cluster connectivity libraries, containerized testing infrastructure, and APIs to govern dataset interactions while managing and growing teams of engineers. His background spans the full data stack—from Spark jobs and Hadoop pipelines to front-end tools and automated account management—gained at companies including Criteo and startups acquired into larger platforms. He combines pragmatic production engineering with an interest in developer ergonomics and reproducible testing environments, often embedding with product teams to accelerate adoption. Based in the Bay Area, he pairs deep technical expertise with operational leadership to drive migrations and platform reliability at scale.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SaymV/booktrades
Feb 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:56 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 3 months
SaymV/iceberg
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024
Apache Iceberg
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
apache-icebergapachebig-datajavaiceberg
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