Growing Data Engineering Team in a Scale-Up - Mehdi OUAZZA DataTalks.Club

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/



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