Joost Flaes
Head Of Solution Engineering at Elementary
Netherlands
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Top SchoolJoost 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
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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12kreached
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Github Skills (37)
data-governance10
bigquery10
snowflake10
data-warehouse10
dataops10
analytics-engineering10
dbt10
data-lineage10
dbt-packages10
data-pipeline10
data-analysis10
observability9
data-pipelines9
arxiv8
doi8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elementary-data/jaffle-shop-goes-online-forked
Feb 2025 - May 2026
Extending dbt jaffle shop to support interesting Elementary case.
Contributions:428 PRs, 26 pushes, 433 branches in 1 year 4 months
dbt
Medscio/public
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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