Emiel Verkade
Software Engineer at Datadog
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEmiel Verkade is a software engineer with 8 years' experience blending analytics, data engineering and full-stack development, now at Datadog after Eppo’s acquisition. He has a strong track record shipping product-facing features and fixes under pressure—authoring 273 PRs at Eppo and owning end-to-end metadata management while managing 20+ enterprise accounts across EMEA. Emiel is fluent in Python, Java, JavaScript and SQL ecosystems and has optimised large data estates and dbt packages to cut costs and improve performance across Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift and Postgres. Comfortable building visualisations and dashboards with Tableau, Plotly and Dash, he also bridges customer needs and engineering execution, routinely turning P1 issues around in hours. His background in econometrics and early work automating university processes reveals a knack for turning complex data into practical, high-impact automation.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Econometrics & Operations Research, Master of Science - MS, Econometrics & Operations Research at Maastricht UniversityExchange Semester, Exchange Semester at University of Wisconsin-MadisonGCSEs, GCSEs at Island SchoolInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at International School of The Hague
English, Dutch, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
derived10
dbt-packages10
documentation-generator10
event-data10
dbt9
data-model9
snowplow9
documentation8
querying8
data-pipeline8
data-modeling8
analytics8
javascript8
json8
code-behind8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
snowplow/dbt-snowplow-mobile
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
A fully incremental model, that transforms raw mobile event data generated by the Snowplow mobile trackers into a series of derived tables of varying levels of aggregation.
Contributions:4 releases, 41 reviews, 22 commits in 10 months
datawarehouseincrementalaggregationderivedbigquery
snowplow/dbt-snowplow-utils
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Snowplow utility functions to be used in conjunction with the snowplow-web dbt package.
Contributions:8 releases, 48 reviews, 22 commits in 10 months
utility-functionssnowplow-analyticsdbt-packagesdbtdbt-package
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