An established data practitioner with close to 10 years of experience in various roles within the data space, the speaker primarily works as a data consultant, providing SMEs end-to-end support in getting their data and machine learning projects off the ground and into production. The speaker has previously worked as a research engineer at Zalando, as a data engineer at Flixbus and at various smaller startups wearing multiple hats, including staff data engineer and head of data roles.