Sam Debruyn

Freelance Data Platform Architect / Data Engineer

Specialized in Microsoft Azure, Fabric & dbt. Microsoft Data Platform MVP. dbt Community Award. Public speaker & meetup organizer. OSS contributor.

Sam Debruyn

Sam Debruyn

Freelance Data Platform Architect / Data Engineer

Services

If you’d like to work with me, feel free to reach out! I tend to combine long-term projects with ad-hoc consultancy. So if you have a specific project in mind, or you just want to bounce back some ideas or get a few questions answered, please get in touch.

Email: sam@debruyn.dev

Expertise

I can support you with data platform architecture, data engineering, data governance, data quality, cloud engineering, and MLOps. My focus is on building data platforms that are easy to use, maintain, and scale.

I have experience with a variety of tools and technologies, including:

  • Data platforms, data governance, data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouses, streaming, …
  • Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview
  • Python, SQL, C#, Go, Scala
  • Databricks, Spark, dbt, Airflow, Delta Lake
  • DuckDB, Postgres, Arrow, Polars
  • Soda, Great Expectations
  • Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible
  • CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
  • MLOps, MLflow

Over the past decade, I collected over 30 certifications related to data, software, and cloud engineering. In 2023, I received the dbt Community Award . In 2024, I received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Data Platform category.

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