Sam Brennan

Enterprise AE who builds the stack he sells into.

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Available now · Manchester, UK

Understands the system. Sells the outcome.

£36M+ closed.

2× President's Club.

Qualified on MEDDPICC.

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Grounded in CV · updated Sep 2026

Hi, I'm AI Sam. Ask me about deals, the stack I've built, or when I can start.

Experience.

Selling observability, cloud and AI infrastructure to the teams who run it.

2023 — PresentTechnical Sabbatical — AI-Native ProductsKizzuna / Self-directed · Greater Manchester / remote

Design, build and operate a portfolio of AI-native consumer apps end-to-end — architecture, AI orchestration, payments and launch — on an open-source-led stack running on autonomous agent workflows.

2019 — 2023Account Executive — Higher Education & Research (London)Insight · Manchester (London territory)

Through correct utilisation of sales methodologies such as MEDDPICC I acquired and developed Insight's highest-revenue HE & Research portfolio, operating as a combined new-business hunter, account executive and accoun…

2017 — 2019Account Executive — Education & Research (North)Insight · Manchester

Hand-picked by the Head of Education to rapidly acquire net-new logos and change Insight's perception from transactional to strategic across the existing customer base.

2016 — 2017Corporate Business Development ManagerInsight · Manchester

New-business hunting across corporate accounts.

2014 — 2016Corporate Business Development ManagerSoftcat plc · Manchester

New-business development across corporate accounts.

Projects.

Things I've built to understand what my customers run.

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Live · this siteAI Sam

This site. A CV you can talk to.

Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · ElevenLabs

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LiveSide Income Index

The UK's honest side-income directory. Kizzuna's flagship product.

Next.js · Supabase · Stripe · Cloudflare

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BuildingPersonal agent stack v2 (Hermes)

Rebuilding my always-on agent setup on Hermes, using everything OpenClaw taught me.

Hermes v0.17 · Ubuntu 24.04 on WSL2 · Codex (ChatGPT Pro OAuth) · Ollama - Qwen 3.6 27B, DeepSeek R1 32B, Devstral Small 2 24B, GPT-OSS 20B, Gemma 4 12B

Skills.

How I run a deal, and the platforms I can talk about with the people who operate them.

Sales

MEDDPICC, Challenger Sale and value-based sellingFull-cycle new business — complex / considered-purchase enterprise sales

Public sector & frameworks

Public-sector procurement — multi-stakeholder buying cycles and sole-supply agreementsFrameworks: NEUPC-HENSS, HealthTrust Europe/HTE, G-Cloud, SUPC-SSSNA, LUPC, ITRAP, JISC, CPC, TePAS, NHS SBS

Technical

Observability & OpenTelemetryAI infrastructure (NVIDIA DGX)HPC & co-locationCloud (AWS / Azure)Databases · DevOps · GitHub

Inference & compute

Local open-weight models (GPU via WSL / Ubuntu)Ollama · Nebius · GroqCloud · ad-hoc VPS · OpenRouter

Orchestration & AiOps

LangChain · n8n · Claude Code · Cursor · Droid · CodexHermes · OpenClaw · Tavily · Firecrawl · Exa.io · Tinyfish · NemotronDocker · Lovable · Vercel

Certifications.

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) (in progress)Linux Foundation2026

Nebius Agentic AI Builder (NAB-201)Nebius2026

Nebius AI Cloud LeaderNebius2026

Tavily Web Search APITavily2026

Academy Accreditation - Databricks FundamentalsDatabricks2026

Academy Accreditation - Generative AI FundamentalsDatabricks2026

Partner Training - Gen AI & LLM on DatabricksDatabricks2026

VASTronaut - Sales & PresalesVAST Data2026

Anthropic MCP: Advanced TopicsAnthropic2026

NVIDIA Networking & VirtualisationNVIDIA2019-2023

Let's talk.

sambrennan92@gmail.com

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