Bio
Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Software Engineer turned Developer Advocate at Tinybird. He empowers developers to think creatively when building data-intensive applications through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.
Joe’s career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one of the largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid TikToker and Tweeter.
- My Website: https://www.joekarlsson.com
- Weekly Newsletter: https://joekarlsson.substack.com
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeKarlsson1
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joekarlsson
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekarlsson
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKarlsson
- Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@JoeKarlsson
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joekarlsson
- GitHub: https://github.com/JoeKarlsson
- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/joe_karlsson
- Medium: https://medium.com/@joekarlsson
- Reddit: www.reddit.com/user/joekarlsson
- Spotify: https://joekarlsson.dev/spotify
- GitLab: https://gitlab.com/joekarlsson
- StackOverfow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/1630905/joe-karlsson
My Talks
A Gentle Introduction to Building a Real-time Analytics Platform
Discover building real-time analytics engines. Learn data ingestion, processing, scalability, and technology choices through a live demo. Engage in a multiplayer game for real-time data. Leave empo...
A Gentle Introduction to Building Data Intensive Applications
We all know that data intensive applications have had explosive growth in the past decade. As software developers, we all have unprecedented opportunities to build data applications that generate v...
ETL is Dead!
Explore the shift from traditional ETL to real-time data processing. Understand the limitations of ETL and discover the agility and speed of streaming data architectures. This talk includes hands-o...
How to build a data stack that your company actually uses
Struggling with underutilized data stacks? This talk provides strategies to bridge the technology-user gap. Learn to build an effective, user-friendly data stack through assessing needs, selecting ...
[Keynote] The Art of Computer Science
Do you feel like you have struggled to find your place in the tech industry? Do you feel like coding is a slog? Perhaps you feel dumb or like an imposter? I know exactly how you feel. This talk is ...
Why is no one visiting my lakehouse?
Facing challenges with an underutilized data Lakehouse? Learn to tackle common issues, enhance data usage, and transform raw data into actionable insights through real-time analytics and hands-on e...
You Don’t Know SQL
In this talk, we’ll bust 3 myths about SQL databases:
* SQL databases cannot support large streaming write rates
* SQL databases cannot handle the changing schemas of streaming data
* SQL databa...