Organizer
Following his degree in Telecommunications Engineering and Information Technology, Marcin has gained over 20 years of experience and knowledge of data technologies and relational databases, SQL Server, Data Migrations, E2E performance testing and tuning, database development life cycle covering technical architecture, data analysis, logical and physical design including disaster recovery, specification, coding, implementation, and support. Marcin has delivered data migration projects in the banking, retail, automotive, and medical industries.
Marcin leads a small business specialising in providing technical niche expertise in data migrations, data integrations, and data platforms. He also runs Data York – a user group focusing on data technologies as he enjoys helping businesses get the best out of their data.
Marcin also builds SQLWATCH – SQL Server Monitoring platform.
Marcin has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award (MVP) for 2021.
Co-Organizer
I’m Chris Williams, a thirty-something Data Engineering Consultant living in York.
I’ve been working with Data for almost a decade now, starting as a Data Analyst and BI Developer in the Education sector, then moving to numerous roles creating data platforms, lakes, warehouses, and reporting portals. I currently have been given the great opportunity to join the talented people at Advancing Analytics as a Senior Consultant of Data Engineering.
I have always been fascinated by the speed of technological innovation in this work. There is always a new tool to explore or a new skill to learn.
Co-Organizer
I’ve spent more than 30 years in the IT industry in a variety of roles and sectors, in and around York. I’ve been in software, infrastructure, sysadmin and ICT Management. I’ve worked in Higher Education, Finance, Construction and Defence. Basically, I get bored easily! I’m now back working in software, as a Senior Back-end Engineer with the Data Transformation innovator, Matillion, using Java and Kotlin. I’ve experience of a number of coding languages, but mostly in the open source arena, such as Java of course, PHP, javascript, C and even Ada and Occam. In my spare time, I like martial arts, insects and aircraft