Hey, I'm Mehdio 👋
I started my career in data 10+ years ago as a data engineer, working in large corporates like AXA setting up on-prem Spark clusters (yes, that old!) to tech unicorns building data platforms in the cloud at Klarna, Back Market, and Trade Republic.
Over the years, I found a passion for sharing what I learned and teaching others. It became my full-time job when I joined as the first DevRel at MotherDuck (DuckDB in the cloud) in 2023.
I believe learning should be fun. I enjoy making complex topics more approachable through storytelling and creativity.
I want to keep teaching curious students (in-person and online) and help the next generation learn not just data, but software engineering in this post-AI world.
Work Experience
MotherDuck
•Data Engineer & Developer AdvocateFirst DevRel hire. Built docs from scratch, grew social audience 450%, launched YouTube channel (100K+ views), organized 5+ DuckDB meetups (250+ attendees), spoke at 12+ events.
Trade Republic
•Staff Data EngineerLed data infrastructure for analytics engineers. Co-organized first company-wide hackathon (50%+ participation). Launched public engineering blog.
Back Market
•Senior Data EngineerBuilt access management for 100+ data users. Led data warehouse migration from AWS to GCP.
Klarna
•Senior Data EngineerBuilt and maintained batch/streaming pipelines at scale. Created frameworks to optimize data flow.
AXA
•Data EngineerSet up CI/CD pipelines for data. Delivered end-to-end business cases. Led Data Science community.