Data & Drinks: Engineering Data Mesh - From Theory to Practice

And just like that, it's time for the final Data & Drinks event of 2024! 🎄

This edition will focus on Data Mesh, and our seasoned speakers will be Data & Solution Architect Ozan Dogu Tuna and Senior Data Engineer at HEMA Matteo Pocchiari.

This free event includes dinner, drinks and a lot of networking opportunities with data professionals from Amsterdam and beyond.

Abstract
Talk #1 by Ozan Dogu Tuna: Data Mesh: An Engineer’s Guide
The core idea and concepts of Data Mesh, from a data/cloud/ops engineer point of view, may seem too vague and rightfully so. In this talk, I will try to build a bridge between the abstract and concrete, making Data Mesh more understandable and agreeable by engineers.

Talk #2 by Matteo Pocchiari: Empowering Insights: Creating a Cloud-Based Data Mesh at HEMA
In this presentation, I'll dive into our journey of implementing a Data Mesh architecture on Databricks and AWS. By decentralizing data ownership and enabling domain teams to manage their own data products, we've empowered insights and decision-making across the organization. I'll walk you through the transition from on-premises to a fully cloud-based architecture and share key lessons learned along the way.

Speaker Bios: TBA

• Ozan Dogu Tuna: Born in the Turkish capital Ankara, Ozan has a BS in Electronics Engineering and an MSc on Robotics that he obtained in Eindhoven. Following field experience that lasted around 5 years, he went back to university for another MSc in Computer Engineering, where he got fascinated with Distributed Systems in general and Big Data as a particular application area. Since then, Ozan has been working in the data world, performing Data, Solution and Systems Architect roles for a variety of companies and clients. He also worked in Xomnia between 2021 and 2024.
• Matteo Pocchiari: Former Xomnian and Machine Learning Engineer, Matteo is now a Senior Data Engineer at HEMA where, together with his team, manages the core data platform. His main focus is the infrastructure setup of the data platform, to enable off-the-shelf ETL pipelines development across teams and empower data democratization in the company.

Agenda:

• 17:30-18.30: Walk-ins & dinner
• 18.30-18.35: Introduction to Xomnia
• 18:35-19:10: Data Mesh: An Engineer’s Guide
• 19:10-19:25: Break
• 19.25-20.00: Implementing Data Mesh architecture on Databricks and AWS
• 20:00-21.00: Borrel