Shachar Meir has spent more than 20 years leading data and analytics organizations. He has built and led data and analytics teams in both established startups, including WorldRemit and Pontis, and large global companies, including PayPal and Meta, giving him an unusually complete view of how data functions grow, break, and mature at every stage of a company’s life.

Shachar’s most recent corporate role at Meta was Director of Data Engineering for Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger on Trust and Safety, where his teams tackled some of the hardest data problems in the industry at enormous scale. Before that, he led a data engineering team in Facebook’s Ads and Business Platform. He also served as the London Data Engineering site lead, building and growing the site’s data engineering function from 4 data engineers to more than 200, an experience that made him an expert not just in data systems but in hiring, team design, and scaling engineering cultures.

Today, Shachar works as a Data Advisor, supporting companies and individuals in their data journey. Outside of work, he loves spending time with his family, flying airplanes and helicopters recreationally, and cooking.