I enjoy sharing knowledge and experience during live events. I have presented at multiple conferences and meetups, including:
- Berlin Buzzwords
- Data Innovation Summit
- Infoshare
- Spark + AI Summit
Here are talks I’ve given over the years, focusing on various aspects of data engineering. Most recent first.
“More Than Just The Tip Of The Iceberg”
Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Berlin (June 2025)
A longer session with live coding examples, going deeper into the most important aspects of Apache Iceberg.
Code repository used in the session. Slides available here. Video below.
“Time Travel on ACID”
Data Meetup Berlin (February 2025)
A gentle introduction to Apache Iceberg and its use cases, using a rather bold color scheme. Slides below.
“Apache Iceberg - Transactional Storage for Large Datasets”
Infoshare, Warsaw (September 2020)
An overview of the structure of Apache Iceberg tables and how it differs from classic Hive tables. Slides below.
“Serverless Data Infrastructure”
Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm (August 2020)
Serverless data infrastructure, as practiced at Zalando. Slides below.
“ACID ORC, Iceberg, and Delta Lake”
Spark + AI Summit Europe 2019, Amsterdam (October 2019)
An overview and comparison of three competing table formats for storing data in data lakes and data lakehouses.
Slides available here. Video below.
“Data Infrastructure as Code”
Zalando Data Engineering Meetup, Berlin (April 2019)
Less about infrastructure as code, and more on challenges of running a data infrastructure team at a larger company. In this case - Zalando.
Slides available here. Video below.