Summary
Joel Macey is a Senior Data Engineer based in Hamburg, Germany, with nine years of experience building scalable, cloud-native data platforms for industries ranging from education and government to retail and wine in Australia and beyond. He currently leads data engineering at About You, designing robust data pipelines and cost-efficient architecture while championing data governance and secure access to sensitive information. Earlier at The Data Foundry and Treasury Wine Estates, he led teams to uplift analytics platforms, enabling near real-time insights into customer journeys and operational data across finance, sales, and digital domains. His technical toolkit spans AWS serverless and storage services (Lambda, Glue, S3, Athena, Redshift, EMR, Step Functions), data lake/data warehouse/lakehouse strategies, and scalable CI/CD pipelines with Docker and Git-based workflows. He also has a track record of applying AI and LLM-enabled automation to streamline manual workflows and build AI-powered data interfaces. A proactive learner and collaborator, he enjoys working with innovative teams that value high-quality, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, German