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Samuel Wu

@samuelwu

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Purpose-driven data leader with 10+ years of experience.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role that delivers high impact with data and fosters continuous learning.

I am a purpose-driven and empathetic data leader with over a decade of experience in scaling startups from seed stage through acquisition. My journey has been marked by building enterprise-grade data and orchestration platforms within highly regulated industries such as HIPAA, GDPR, and FCRA. I thrive in environments where I can deliver high impact with data while continuously learning and collaborating with effective leaders.

Currently, I serve as a Data Engineering Manager at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, where I manage two teams of 16 engineers and informally oversee an organization of 35 engineers. My focus has been on establishing trust with parent company leadership and improving key performance indicators, such as reducing monthly cloud costs by 25% and enhancing hit rate metrics for key customers by 20%. My previous role as Head of Data & Analytics at Human API allowed me to architect a petabyte-scale HIPAA-compliant data platform, achieving 99.9% platform availability and unifying diverse datasets for over 100 users.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Engineering Manager

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Managed two teams of 16 engineers and informally an organization of 35 engineers through a reorg, building trust with parent company leadership and establishing stability. Established an observability-driven data modeling approach for complex healthcare data, reducing data product development cycles by 95%.

Data Modeling Data Governance LLM Data Engineering Data Products Team Management

Head of Data & Analytics

Human API

Dec 2019 - Jan 2024 (4 years 1 month)

Architected and deployed a petabyte-scale HIPAA-compliant Databricks data platform, enabling centralized data access and self-service analytics for over 100 users with 99.9% platform availability. Led organization-wide data product strategy, partnering with stakeholders to develop reusable data products across clinical, product, and operational domains, resulting in 90% faster time-to-insight.

Databricks HIPAA)Data Platform Data Strategy Team Leadership Data Governance DE&I

Software Engineer

Human API

Nov 2014 - Dec 2019 (5 years 1 month)

Designed and scaled data integrations to over 20 health data APIs while maintaining HIPAA-compliance. Executed zero-downtime migrations of critical data infrastructure and container platforms.

Data Integration HIPAA)Data Infrastructure Container Platforms Performance Optimization Observability