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Mathias Lavaert

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Principal Platform Engineer DPG Media

Mathias has a decade of experience working on several data-intensive projects in various roles, ranging from engineer to enterprise data architect. Currently he helps DPG Media to transition to a data mesh architecture as a Principal Data Engineer. Mathias lives on the outskirts of Brussels with his wife. Together they're building a small farm specialized in breeding Herdwick sheep.

Bio from: Dbt Coalesce 2024

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Managing dbt for 150 analytics engineers meant evolving from fragmented dbt Core projects to unified standards, migrating to dbt Cloud. We solved security risks and inconsistent practices through standardization and centralized workflows, while maintaining our Airflow orchestration. Challenges remain in balancing governance with analyst autonomy at scale.