Sami Säily
Senior Solutions Architect at Frends iPaaS
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Säily is a Senior Solutions Architect with over eight years of focused experience designing and deploying high-throughput data platforms, now based in Finland. He blends "old school" hacker instincts with production-grade engineering, specializing in the Apache stack—Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, InfluxDB—and containerized deployments on Docker, Mesos, and YARN. Sami has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to senior architecture and field engineering positions at companies like Aiven, Wärtsilä, and Frends iPaaS, delivering IoT and cloud-native data solutions. Known for moving data fast and performing real-time transformations, he pairs deep systems knowledge with pragmatic operational practices. An understated strength is his longevity across the full lifecycle—from prototyping to hardened releases—reflecting both academic grounding from the University of Oulu and decades of evolving platform experience.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
fil.yo., Department of Information Processing Science, fil.yo., Department of Information Processing Science at University of Oulu
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (58)
sink9
pipeline8
java8
aiven8
kafka-connect7
kafka7
data-integrity7
aerospike7
scale6
automation6
singer6
devops6
yaml6
kafka-connector6
docker6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ssaily/tms-demo
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Kafka pipeline demo
Contributions:129 commits, 73 PRs, 214 pushes in 2 years 1 month
kafkasinkpipeline
ssaily/highlander
Apr 2021 - Jan 2024
Reverse proxy handling HA for prometheus server groups remote_write feature
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
groupsprometheus-serverprometheus-exporterproxyreverse-proxy
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