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Speakers

M. Waqas Shahid

Employers on the program

  1. 2023–2026Delivery Hero6 talks

The year around now

Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAirflow SummitAirflow SummitCoalesceCoalesce
Held in the past 12 months Next 12 months Today, Nov 10, 2026

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • Airflow Summit
  • Coalesce

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Sep 15, 2026dbt Summit 2026CoalescespeakerThe platform team said no — dbt won with “yes” - story of governance, autonomy, and scale
as Delivery Hero

At Delivery Hero, dbt adoption came from customer teams pushing past platform caution, not from a platform mandate.

Video
Aug 31, 2026Airflow Summit 2026Airflow SummitworkshopEnterprise-Grade Airflow Upgrade: Strategies & Deep Dive
as Delivery Hero
Upgrading to Apache Airflow in large, production-grade environments can be complex—especially in enterprise setups with hundreds of DAGs, custom plugins, and…Show less

Upgrading to Apache Airflow in large, production-grade environments can be complex—especially in enterprise setups with hundreds of DAGs, custom plugins, and mission-critical pipelines.

Oct 7, 2025Airflow Summit 2025Airflow SummittalkAirflow 3 - An Open Heart Surgery
as Delivery Hero
Curious how code truly flows inside Airflow? Join me for a unique visualisation journey into Airflow’s inner workings (first of its kind) — code blocks and…Show less

Curious how code truly flows inside Airflow? Join me for a unique visualisation journey into Airflow’s inner workings (first of its kind) — code blocks and modules called when certain operations are running.

Video
Oct 7, 2025Airflow Summit 2025Airflow SummitworkshopAirflow and Optimised Data Platform: Setup & Customisations
as Delivery Hero
Airflow has been used by many companies as a core part of their internal data platform. Would you be interested in finding out how Airflow could play a pivotal…Show less

Airflow has been used by many companies as a core part of their internal data platform. Would you be interested in finding out how Airflow could play a pivotal role in achieving data engineering excellence and efficiency using modern data architecture.

Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummitworkshopAirflow and Data Mesh: Architecture, setup & monitoring
as Delivery Hero
Ever thought how Airflow could play a pivotal role in data mesh architecture, hosting thousands of DAGs and hundreds of thousands daily running tasks, let's…Show less

Ever thought how Airflow could play a pivotal role in data mesh architecture, hosting thousands of DAGs and hundreds of thousands daily running tasks, let's find out!

Sep 19, 2023Airflow Summit 2023Airflow SummittalkAirflow at Delivery Hero: Running a data mesh with ~500 Airflow instances
as Delivery Hero
Ever thought how airflow could play a pivotal role in data mesh architecture, hosting thousands of DAGs and hundreds of thousands daily running tasks, let's…Show less

Ever thought how airflow could play a pivotal role in data mesh architecture, hosting thousands of DAGs and hundreds of thousands daily running tasks, let's find out!

Video

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Ash Berlin-Taylor3—2026
Brent Bovenzi3—2026
Dennis Ferruzzi3—2026
Jarek Potiuk3—2026
Jed Cunningham3—2026
Jonathan Leek3—2026
Kaxil Naik3—2026
Kenten Danas3—2026
Marc Lamberti3—2026
Maxime Beauchemin3—2026
Michał Modras3—2026
Niko Oliveira3—2026
Philippe Gagnon3—2026
Pierre Jeambrun3—2026
Rafal Biegacz3—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.