Max Schultze is an associate director of data engineering at the data platform of HelloFresh, the world's leading meal kit company. His focus lies on offering company wide platform solutions around data infrastructure and governance. Previously he was working as engineering manager at Zalando were he was building data pipelines at petabytes scale, productionizing distributed processing engines like Spark and Trino, and providing services and tooling for data management. As an early adopter of the data mesh paradigm, he is frequently advocating its usage through conference appearances, online trainings, and publications. Max originally graduated from Humboldt University of Berlin, actively taking part in the university’s initial development of Apache Flink.