Data Engineer Things Data Engineering March Meet-up

Get ready for the first Data Engineer Things meetup of 2025!!! 🥳🥳

We're super excited to be hosted by the Information Lab at their chic offices in St. Pauls and boy do we have some cool talks! We're still looking for ONE Speaker so if you know anyone who wants to chat data platforms, let us know!

🗣️ Robert Vadai - Data Engineer at Merlin Entertainment
💡 Scaling similarity: running algorithmically complex computation at scale in Spark for ELT
Robert's is a Data Engineer and Big Data Architect, and most recently built an anti-money laundering analytics engine with scalable optimisations implemented in Spark. This has recursive machine learning models to process 500m transactions a day. Currently, Robert is building data platforms where he focusses on advancing a data product mindset, a platform anyone can use, Data Governance and Security

🗣️ Sanchit Agarwal - Data Engineer@BJSS
💡 Building a Data Platform in AWS, dbt, Iceberg Glue and Athena: a data engineer's perspective

🗣️ Hugo Lu - CEO@Orchestra
💡 Data Platforms without Boundaries: a crash course in Data Architecture and building platforms for scale on AWS, GCP and Azure

18:00 - 18:45 - Drinks, Food and Networking
18:45 - 19.15 - Scaling similarity: running algorithmically complex computation at scale in Spark for ELT
19:15 - 19.30 - Break
19.30 - 20:00 - Building a Data Platform in AWS, dbt, Iceberg Glue and Athena: a data engineer's perspective
20:00 - 20:15 - Data Platforms without Boundaries
20:15 onwards - Drinks, Networking and Pub

Sign-up if: you want to meet other folks in the data space and talk about real data engineering work :) Not just theory!

Really looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible!
DET Team