Lars Albertsson is the founder of Scling, a data engineering startup based in Stockholm. Scling provides data value as a service, delivering customer-tailored data engineering, analytics, and data science to organizations that want to get practical results from their data. Lars is also a frequent conference speaker on data engineering and data strategy, known for a pragmatic, no-hype approach to building data platforms.

Before founding Scling, Lars worked at Google, Spotify, and Schibsted, and as an independent consultant, helping organizations create value with data processing. At Spotify he experienced first hand what self-service analytics means in practice, from orchestration of workflows to the platform components that let analysts move quickly without breaking reproducibility. That experience now informs his advocacy of DataOps: applying DevOps-style discipline to data, with immutable and functional pipeline designs, automated testing, schema management, and versioning that make platforms maintainable as they scale.

Through Scling, his talks, and his open list of recommended readings on DataOps, lineage, and versioning, Lars helps data teams and their leaders make sound architectural trade-offs, whether they are weighing batch against streaming, lakes against warehouses, or centralized platforms against decentralized approaches.