version: 2025.02.19 (semantic release disabled - no major patch expected. Stable release)
- Lead the Data Platform team at sennder, supporting 200+ engineers, analysts, and product teams.
- Building scalable Data Mesh, GDPR-compliant infrastructure, and observability tools for data quality and cost.
- Ensuring long-term GDPR compliance by embedding privacy-by-design into our data stack.
- Driving Kafka adoption and improving event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on with Snowflake, Dagster, dbt, docker, Terraform, Python and streaming data pipelines.
- Defining the long-term vision & strategy for the Data Platform.
- Helping teams adopt Data Mesh principles and improve cross-functional collaboration.
- Strengthening Kafka expertise and tooling within the company.
- Transitioning from people management back to an IC role by mid-2025 to go deep into platform engineering & distributed systems.
- Kafka – mastering event-driven architectures and scalable messaging.
- RabbitMQ - mostly curious about Kafka*s alternatives.
- Go – exploring new languages and backend performance optimizations.
- Looking for new personal project ideas related to data, AI, sports or gaming.
Open-source tooling & libraries, especially in:
- AI & ML
- Data processing
- Sports & fitness tech
- Gaming & game analytics
I have a wide range of expertise, from technical skills to people leadership and product management!
-Data Mesh & distributed data platforms -Technical product management & stakeholder alignment -Scaling & automating data infrastructure -Event-driven architectures
I have a strong competitive gamer past. I was officer in a top 3 EU/NA guild in a MMORPG at its release (Aion) 😎
At some point, I led a World of Warcraft raid roster. Now, I apply my raid leadership skills to software engineering teams — minus the loot drama. 😅