000. Pilot

Igor identifies himself as a pragmatic engineer with strong academic background. A theoretical physicist by training, he eventually assumed he had enough PhDs and left Academia to work with Data-* related things. As of 2022, Igor works as a Data Platform Engineer at Klarna. On top of that, he’s a huge fan of cephalopods, math rock, and quantum mechanics. He also hates baked carrots so much he decided to mention it in this bio

Having 14 years of experience in IT, Pasha went through a fire in water, from technical support to developer, team lead, and data engineer. Now Pasha works as a developer advocate for Data Engineering at JetBrains. He helps develop the Big Data Tools plugin, gives talks on Kotlin and various aspects of data engineering, and work with data. Also, he is the author and maintainer of Kotlin API for Apache Spark.