Samuel Walker
Senior Customer Education Manager
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSamuel Walker is a Senior Customer Education Manager at Safe Software who builds and scales training programs for the FME data integration platform, helping thousands of users master workflows across 500+ data formats. With a PhD in Human Geography and a background in GIS, urban environmental research, and statistics, he combines rigorous academic research with practical pedagogy to translate complex spatial data concepts into accessible learning. He launched the FME Academy and leads certification efforts, while also teaching urban professionals at Simon Fraser University to apply data analysis and visualization to real-world planning challenges. Samuel's work bridges nonprofit, academic, and industry contexts—his dissertation on vacant land reuse and consulting on social equity projects inform a pedagogy grounded in community-focused, evidence-based problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High school at Upper Saint Clair High SchoolMaster of Arts (M.A.), Human Geography, Master of Arts (M.A.), Human Geography at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at University of TorontoBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Geography; German, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Geography; German at Colgate University
English, German
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Github Skills (23)
godot10
game-engine10
open-source10
fme10
plugin10
gdscript10
dialogue-systems10
game-development10
dialogs10
conversations10
addon10
filemaker9
datasets9
zoneminder9
open-data9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samuel-walker/test-source-book
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Testing for GitBook. This is the source book.
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
testinggitbookdoctest
samuel-walker/fme-desktop-basics
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:35 pushes in 6 months
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