Joost Flaes is a data and solutions engineering leader with 8 years of experience building data platforms and analytics teams across global brands like IKEA, Heineken and Twitter. Currently Head of Solution Engineering at Elementary, he combines hands-on data engineering expertise with people leadership, having progressed from analyst and engineer roles into team and ML leadership at IKEA. Joost has a track record of improving data quality, designing scalable pipelines and enabling cross-functional teams to make data-driven decisions. He’s comfortable across the stack—Python, SQL and big-data ecosystems—while translating technical complexity into product and business outcomes. Based in the Netherlands with an MSc in Information Studies from the University of Amsterdam, he brings a pragmatic mix of academic grounding and enterprise experience. A less obvious strength is his early entrepreneurial and education-focused work, which informs a talent-first approach to building teams and tooling.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Information Studies, Master of Science (MSc) Information Studies at University of Amsterdam
Contributions:15 PRs, 18 pushes, 15 branches in 21 days
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Joost Flaes - Head Of Solution Engineering at Elementary