The useful work is usually behind the bill.

I have spent more than a decade around shared data infrastructure: Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Airflow, S3, metadata systems, secure data lake design, and internal tools used by engineers and analysts.

The theme running through most of my writing is simple: platform cost is rarely just cost. It is ownership, reliability, governance, and the quality of the feedback loops around them.

  • Data Architect at Wix
  • 14 years in data engineering and infrastructure
  • Led secure data lake and data-platform initiatives
  • Built internal tooling for SQL, scheduling, catalogs, and monitoring
  • Based in London

Views here are personal. I write from real platform experience, but I do not publish confidential internals or private company material.