About Sam

Sam Debruyn is a freelance data & cloud architect currently active as Data Architect Consultant and Technical Lead Data & Cloud at dataroots .

Through Dataroots, Sam has worked on tens of projects in multiple sectors with companies of all sizes and varying technologies. This includes small companies like local start-ups, multinationals, as well as banks and one of Belgium’s biggest players in the public transportation sector. He started his career in mobile application development with Xamarin and transitioned into focusing more on cloud technologies. In 2020 he made the switch to data engineering.

The Microsoft stack is where Sam feels at home. In 2024 Sam received the Microsoft MVP award in the Data Platform category.

Sharing knowledge is at the heart of everything that Sam believes in. He is a regular public speaker (meetups and conferences) and open-source software contributor.

Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.

– Donald Knuth