We talked about:
- Mehdi’s background
- The difference between startup, scale-up and enterprise
- Hypergrowth
- Data platform engineers in a scale-up environment
- What a data platform is and who builds it
- Managing the fast pace of a scale-up while ensuring personal growth
- Should a senior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise?
- Should a junior data person consider a scale-up or an enterprise?
- Sourcing talent for hyper-growth companies and developing a community culture
- Generating content and getting feedback
- Generalization vs specialization for data engineers in a scale-up
- The ratio of work between platform building and use case pipelines
- Being proactive in order to progress to mid or senior level
- Caps and bass guitars
- MehdiO DataTV and DataCreators.Club (Mehdi’s YouTube Channel and podcast)
Links:
- Mehdi's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiZxJB0xWfPBE2omVZeWPpQ
- Mehdi's Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/mehd-io/
- Mehdi's Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@mehdio
- Mehdi's data creators club: https://datacreators.club/
ML Zoomcamp: https://github.com/alexeygrigorev/mlbookcamp-code/tree/master/course-zoomcamp
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