People of Data Engineering

Last updated Mar 7, 2024

A list of the people of Data Engineering (sorted alphabetically). This list is not meant to be 100% complete, and descriptions are minimal. It’s a personal list that I am sharing with you.

• Adi Polak: Author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark
• Alexey Grigorev: Blog, Zoomcamps and GitHub tutorials
• Ananth Packkildurai: Functional Data Engineering, Creator of dataengineeringweekly.com.
• Andreas Kretz: Creator of The Data Engineering Cookbook
• Andy Grove: Apache Arrow PMC. Creator of DataFusion & Ballista (Arrow) query engines)
• Andy Petrella: Writing on Data Observability
• Barr Moses: Great articles on Data Observability.
• Bartosz Konieczny: Author of Wait for Code, a course Becoming a Data Engineer, and a book called Data Engineering Patterns on the Cloud
• Benjamin Rogojan: Seattle Data Guy
• Benn Stancil: Prolific writer on his blogs, and they usually start with it Friday, let’s fight…
• Cássio Bolba: Amazing Modeling Blogs on Medium
• Chad Sanderson: Data contracts, and captivating articles
• Chris Riccomini: Essays on tech, data, and streaming
• Christophe Blefari: A combination of aggregate newsletters and one-off articles on data engineering
• Daniel Beach: Broad range of data engineering topics
• Darshil Parmar: Popular youtube
• Denny Lee: Delta Lake, Rust, OSS
• Dipankar Mazumdar: Dremio and specialized in Apache Iceberg.
• Ergest Xheblati: Explores data patterns in data engineering, data science and analytics
• Erik Bernhardsson: Building a simple version of Kubernetes Modal
• Itai Yaffe: Druid expert, working with Apache Spark, Databricks, Women in Big Data, and is also a frequent public speaker.
• Jacek Laskowski: ApacheSpark DeltaLake Databricks ApacheKafka KafkaStreams ksqlDB
• James Trunk: Clojure and Functional Programming.
• Jérémy Ravenel: Naas, Jupyter Notebooks into powerful automation, analytical, and AI
• Joe Reis: Co-Creator of Fundamentals of data engineering
• Jonathan Neo: Creator of Data Engineering Bootcamp
• Joseph Machado: Lots of great how-tos and projects on Start Data Engineering
• Kyle Weller: Specialist in Apache Hudi and comparisons among different Data Lake Table Formats
• Marc Lamberti: Airflow
• Martin Kleppmann: Author of Data-Intensive Apps, researcher TU Munich.
• Matei Zaharia: Chief Technologist at Databricks
• Matt Housley: Co-Creator of Fundamentals of data engineering
• Matt Turck: Creator of MAD landscape
• Matt Weingarten: Data Engineer at Disney Streaming Services. Previously at Facebook and Nielsen.
• Maxime Beauchemin: Father of Data Engineering and Functional Data Engineering.
• Mehdi Ouazza: Awesome written content, also now on YouTube. Creator of Data Creators Club.
• Michael Armbrust: Creator of Delta Lake, distributed databases, query languages, scala, and other nerdy stuff…
• Michael Kahan: Popular YouTube and Content on DE
• Nick Schrock: Dagster, data orchestration
• Peter Marshall: Druid Advocate
• Petr Janda: Awesome blogs on petr@substack now working on Synq
• Robert Sahlin: Data Platform with Google Cloud
• Ryan Yackel: MAD Data Podcast and genuine news of data engineering.
• Sandy Ryza: Dagster and passionate about Partitioning and Backfill.
• Sarah Krasnik: Great for infra and solutions insights
• Shane Gibson: Data modeling, in data for 30 years. Not technical, but about agile and data modeling.
• Simon Whiteley: Databricks, Data Engineering), popular YouTube
• Stephen Bailey: Exploring the world of data and its adjacencies at Data People Etc.
• Thalia Barrera: Excellent post on date engineering
• ThePrimeagen: Rust, Netflix, programming, Neovim
• Tobias Macey: Data engineering podcast
• Wayne Eckerson: Author, keynote speaker, and consultant Eckerson Group
• Wes McKinney: Pandas / Arrow
• Xinran Waibel: Personalization Data Engineering at Netflix
• Zach Wilson: Data Engineering Challenges at Hyperscale
• and Simon Späti (myself :): Lots of open-source data engineering

Find more on:

• Data Creators Club
• The Top Data Engineering Influencers on LinkedIn
• RSS feeds for Data Engineering
• Open-Source Data Engineering Projects
• Books of Data Engineering
• and Data Engineering Twitter Lists

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Created 2023-04-17