Maikel Penz
Data Engineering Manager
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMaikel Penz is a Data Engineering Manager based in Auckland with 8+ years building and leading data platforms across startups and larger product teams. He moved up from DBA and data engineering roles into leadership at Plexure, where he now drives roadmap, mentors engineers, and architects cloud-native solutions that enable analysts and data scientists to automate workloads. Maikel blends deep operational experience—SQL Server, Elasticsearch, DevOps automation—with practical product focus from roles at Trade Me and Spidertracks, ensuring data quality and delivery at scale. He’s an avid consumer and tinkerer of open-source tech, shares learnings on his Medium blog, and maintains an active GitHub presence as a team lead in data engineering. Comfortable switching between hands-on implementation and strategic planning, he often acts as a scrum lead and translator between business stakeholders and engineering teams. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic designs that turn messy, large datasets into discoverable, reliable products.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computing Technician, Computer Science, Computing Technician, Computer Science at Sociedade Educacional Três de Maio - SETREM
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
postgresql10
operation10
python10
databases10
infrastructure10
duckdb10
data-pipeline10
pipeline10
bigquery10
mysql10
java10
change-data-capture10
data-analysis10
data-collection10
snowflake10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
maikelpenz/job-scraper
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Repository to scrape job openings in New Zealand
Contributions:34 commits, 44 PRs, 117 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonzealandscrapepyodideopenings
maikelpenz/dataflow-automation-infra
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Repository to maintain infrastructure to automate Data Workflows
Contributions:209 commits, 6 PRs, 699 pushes in 5 months
infrastructureautomationterraformiaasworkflows
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