Sam Cotten
Data Engineer @Flix
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WORK HISTORY
Data Engineer @Flix
Berlin, DE
Developing scalable, data-intensive, event-driven architectures across diverse cloud platforms and technologies, including Kafka, S3 / Data Lake, Snowflake, DBT, AWS, K8s, Python, and SQL
EDUCATION
UC Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biopsychology
Charité Medical University - Berlin
Master of Science - MS, Medical Neuroscience
ABOUT SAM COTTEN
I build event-driven data systems at Flix that handle millions of daily transactions. My work spans real-time streaming (Kafka), cloud warehousing (Snowflake), ELT pipelines (dbt), and the backend services for our multi-channel contact center.Core focus:Infrastructure automation with Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. I design for repeatability and reliability—systems that scale without constant intervention. Strong believer in you-build-it-you-own-it: if I architect it, I\'m responsible for keeping it running.Technical background:5+ years in backend and data engineering. Comfortable across the stack—from Python services to CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI) to cloud architecture. My approach is informed by my background in medical neuroscience: systematic problem decomposition, signal analysis, and data-driven iteration.Current interests:Exploring practical applications of LLMs in customer-facing systems. Interested in how conversational AI can improve multi-channel support without adding operational complexity. Wondering if they dream electric sheep?
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