Meetup
Data engineering meetup
Join us for an engaging meetup on building a data platform with Snowflake, dbt & S3 and business intelligence with Dagster & dbt.
May 22nd, Berlin
Date
May 22nd, 2025
18:30 – 21:30
Location
diconium GmbH Berlin Office
Skalitzer Straße 126
10999 Berlin
Drinks & Food
A few drinks and some
finger food are available
free of charge.
Lessons from the Cloud: Building a Scalable, Decentralized Data Platform with Snowflake, dbt & S3
Fahad will share practical patterns and lessons learned while designing a multi-warehouse data platform across analytics, risk, and finance — including decisions to simplify modeling, decentralize ownership, and optimize cost and governance in Snowflake. He’ll also highlight challenges faced with legacy systems and how Ratepay tackled them using dbt and clean lake structures.
Fahad Hassan
data and cloud infrastructure lead at Ratepay
Emilija Dankeviciute
specialist data engineer at diconium
Business Intelligence in practice: Dagster & DBT
Topic description comming soon.
Agenda
Event admission
Welcome & Introduction
Business Intelligence in practice: Dagster & DBT
Emilija Dankeviciute
5 Minutes Break
Lessons from the Cloud: Building a Scalable, Decentralized Data Platform with Snowflake, dbt & S3
Fahad Hassan
Snacks, Drinks & Networking
End
What to expect:
Expert talks
Gain knowledge from industry leaders and experts who will share their experiences, strategies, and best practices in data engineering.
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Interactive Q&A
Have your pressing questions answered by the experts during dedicated Q&A sessions. Engage with a diverse group of professionals from various sectors as they discuss the benefits, challenges, and future outlook of data engineering.
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Networking opportunities
Connect with like-minded professionals and expand your network in the field of data engineering.
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Hosts
Peer Schwirtz
Director data architecture & data engineering
Prateek Narula
Director cloud engineering
Jens Wriske
Senior cloud architect
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You want to give a talk at our meetup?
We are open to external speakers. So, if you’re interested in giving a short talk on a Data Engineering topic or have additional input on possible topics, feel free to reach out and leave us a message here:
Recap: data engineering meetup March 2024
On March 13th 2025, we have been focussing on scaling analytics with dbt and simplifying Kubernetes job execution. Thanks to everyone who attended our event last Thursday as part of the audience and by connecting with us and like-minded people over a drink or a pretzel. We were impressed by the specific questions that came up during and after the talks!
Topics
Scaling Analytics with dbt: From Implementation to Impact – with Ceren Gündoğdu
Kube API: Simplifying Kubernetes Job Execution – with Ajit Gosavi
Recap: data engineering meetup December 2024
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our latest data engineering meetup! It was an incredible evening filled with insightful discussions, innovative ideas, and valuable networking.
A huge shoutout to our speakers, whose expertise and engaging presentation truly enlightened us on their real life use cases in the world of data engineering. We are so grateful for your contribution and the knowledge you shared with our community. We also want to extend our thanks to all the attendees who brought their energy, questions, and enthusiasm to the event. Your active participation is what makes our meetups so special.
Rewatch the presentations here:
Behnaz Derakhshani
The Day It All Went Down: A True Story of Challenges and Lessons from our Snowplow Pipeline Outage
Aditya Kadiwal, Reza Yazdani
Inside a real-world databricks Project: Setup, implementation, customer wins, and lessons learned
Host
This meetup is hosted by diconium.
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