Simon Späti
Freelance Technical Author & Data Engineer
Greater Bern Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolSimon Späti is a freelance Technical Author and Data Engineer based in the Greater Bern Area, bringing over 20 years of hands-on experience in data platforms, BI and open-source tooling. He blends deep engineering practice—from building enterprise data platforms with dbt, Airflow, Delta Lake and Dagster to running governance and metadata systems—with a passion for clear, long-lived technical writing. Simon authors ssp.sh, maintains the Data Engineering Vault and a living book on design patterns (dedp.online), and has been featured by Towards Data Science and freeCodeCamp. His work uniquely combines personal knowledge management and developer-centric storytelling, evidenced by projects like his Public Second Brain and the open-source Data Glossary. A family-oriented professional, he offers both consultancy and content services aimed at helping teams adopt robust, maintainable data architectures.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science in information technology Specialisation in Web and Business Applications, Bachelor of science in information technology Specialisation in Web and Business Applications at Berner Fachhochschule BFH
Github Skills (185)
cms10
hugo10
postgresql10
reader10
python10
operation10
data-warehouse10
airbyte10
emoji10
windows10
databases10
metadata10
firefox-addon10
data-ingestion10
etl10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ssp-data/practical-data-engineering
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Real estate dagster pipeline
Contributions:1 review, 24 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
dagsterdata-engineeringdata-pipeline
sspaeti/second-brain-public
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
My Public Second Brain Framework and Style
Contributions:56 commits, 6 PRs, 98 pushes in 2 months
brainpythonsecond-brainsecond
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