Sam Wheating
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Wheating is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building data and machine learning infrastructure at scale, currently leading efforts at Reddit after progressing through senior engineering roles. He blends back-end, DevOps, and data infrastructure expertise—having worked on production workflow tooling and notable open-source contributions to Apache Airflow, where he implemented Google Cloud Deployment Manager integration and Dataproc optimizations. His background includes multi-role growth at Shopify in data engineering and internships spanning academia and automotive failure analysis, reflecting a practical, research-informed approach to systems engineering. Comfortable across cloud platforms and reproducible ML workflows, he’s known for turning complex data pipelines into reliable, testable services and for bridging engineering work with clear documentation and testing practices.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (12)
gcp10
apache-airflow10
google-cloud-platform10
data-pipeline10
data-pipelines10
python10
data-engineering10
devops9
kubernetes-pods7
infrastructure7
kubernetes7
cloud-infrastructure7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Nov 2019 - Jun 2024
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:161 reviews, 53 PRs, 335 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the integration and testing of Google Cloud Deployment Manager (GDM) within the Apache Airflow project. The commits include the implementation of a new hook for GDM, adding related documentation, and creating associated tests. In addition to this, the user addressed several bugs and implemented optimizations for the Dataproc operators and hooks, updating endpoint and other templated field settings.
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SamWheating/airflow
Jun 2020 - Mar 2022
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Contributions:72 commits, 152 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 9 months
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