Growing Data Engineering Team in a Scale-Up - Mehdi OUAZZA

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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