Summary
Samuel Lakes is an Enterprise Data Architect with a decade of hands-on experience designing resilient data pipelines, backend systems, and machine-learning-ready platforms. A Cal Poly San Luis Obispo computer science graduate now based in Colorado Springs, he has driven data engineering work at Intuit and ActiveCampaign and now leads enterprise data strategy at Colorado Springs Utilities. Samuel specializes in large-scale ETL, AWS-based analytics (EMR, Athena, S3) and automating schema evolution and auditing to reduce errors and ensure regulatory compliance. His projects include migrating billions of records, building parity and reconciliation tools that prevented revenue loss, and cutting deployment times from hours to minutes. Colleagues rely on him to translate finance, HR, and sales requirements into reliable, auditable data products鈥攁n engineer who pairs deep implementation skill with a pragmatically creative approach.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Computer Science, Bachelor鈥檚 Degree Computer Science at California Polytechnic State University
English