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The Rise and Downfall of the Data Engineer

Opportunities and challenges in today's data engineering landscape

Maxime Beauchemin, Creator of Apache Airflow & Co-founder of Preset

Is the data engineer still the "worst seat at the table?" Maxime Beauchemin, creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset, discusses his vision for the future of data engineering, including the rise of DataOps and data observability, the splintering of the data team, and the (long-term) pitfalls of templated SQL.

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Maxime Beauchemin

Creator of Apache Airflow & Co-founder 

Preset

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