Diethard Steiner
Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer at Alation
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDiethard Steiner is a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience turning messy metadata into actionable business intelligence and AI-ready knowledge layers. Based in London, he has led end-to-end BI and data engineering programmes across startups and enterprises, specialising in open source ETL, analytics stacks and cloud migrations. At Alation he bridges product and customer needs to evolve data catalogs into autonomous AI agents, while historically founding and running a BI consultancy that delivered scalable, open-source-first solutions. He pairs solution architecture and agile delivery with deep practical skills in ingestion, data modelling, OLAP and self-service reporting, and has repeatedly driven adoption by automating repetitive analytics workflows. Notably, his background includes building high-throughput log-based BI pipelines on AWS and operationalising Big Data on Cloudera, demonstrating a consistent focus on enabling quick, management-level insight.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Knowledge and Information Management, Master Knowledge and Information Management at Hochschule Burgenland
English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (172)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
diethardsteiner/bissolTableDataEditor
May 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:160 commits, 22 pushes, 4 tags in 9 months
diethardsteiner/multimarkdowncomposer-theme
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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