Mehdi Ouazza

Mehdi Ouazza

Data Engineer & Developer Advocate

10+ years in data engineering. Learning should be fun, so I make complex topics approachable through storytelling and creativity, helping devs actually ship with data and AI tools.

OK, these are vanity metrics, but still
YouTube
907k
114 videos
Blog
346k
109 posts
LinkedIn
5.1M
933 posts
X / Twitter
503k
997 posts
GitHub
766
26 repos

Cumulative views / impressions across channels, not unique audience.

Experience
MotherDuck · Data Engineer & Developer Advocate
2023 – Present · Berlin, Remote

First DevRel hire. Built the docs from scratch, launched the YouTube channel (1M+ views), authored 20+ blog posts (100k+ cumulative views), organized and/or spoke at 20+ events.

Trade Republic · Staff Data Engineer
2022 · Berlin, Remote

Led data infra for analytics engineers. Co-organized the first company-wide hackathon (50%+ participation). Launched the public engineering blog.

Back Market · Senior Data Engineer
2021 – 2022 · Berlin, Remote

Built access management for 100+ data users. Led the data warehouse migration from AWS to GCP.

Klarna · Senior Data Engineer
2019 – 2020 · Berlin

Built and maintained batch and streaming pipelines at scale. Created frameworks to optimize data flow.

AXA · Data Engineer
2017 – 2019 · Belgium

Set up CI/CD pipelines for data. Delivered end-to-end business cases. Led the internal Data Science community.

Highlights
  • First DevRel at MotherDuck. Built content, docs, and community from zero.
  • Grew the MotherDuck YouTube channel to 1M+ cumulative views.
  • Authored 20+ MotherDuck blog posts with 100k+ cumulative views.
  • Organized and/or spoke at 25+ events (meetups, conferences).
  • Led a data warehouse migration from AWS to GCP at Back Market.
Skills & focus
AI / dev toolsData engineeringDuckDBDevRel / communityContent production (video, blog, social)PythonSQLCloud (AWS, GCP)