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Max Schultze

Author: Max Schultze

Max Schultze is a Lead Data Engineer currently working on building a Data Lake at Zalando, Europe's leading online platform for fashion. His focus lies on building data pipelines, at the scale of terabytes per day, and handling data governance and central storage management for the company’s cloud storage layer. At Zalando, he was also actively involved in productionizing Spark and Presto as analytical platforms. During his studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, he took part in the university's initial development of Apache Flink.

Amazon S3

How Zalando built its data lake on Amazon S3

Founded in 2008, Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle with over 32 million active customers. I am a lead data engineer at Zalando and a steady contributor to the company’s cloud journey. In this blog post, I cover how Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) became a cornerstone of the data […]