Max Schultze is a data engineering manager working on building a data lake at Zalando, Europe’s biggest online platform for fashion. His focus lies on building data pipelines at petabytes scale and productionizing Spark and Presto on Delta Lake inside the company. He is a public advocate of the Data Mesh paradigm, contributing to its development through conference appearances and online trainings. Max originally graduated from the Humboldt University of Berlin, actively taking part in the university’s initial development of Apache Flink.