Posts | Thomas Nys

Data engineer hiring mistakes - why traditional interviews fail for data roles

You're Hiring Data Engineers Wrong

Cloud cost waste statistics - FinOps ownership gaps that drain budgets

FinOps Reality Check: 60% Wasted Spend

Hero developer risk - why your best engineer threatens team scalability

The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern (Reprise)

Technical debt maintenance costs - strategies to reduce 40% engineering overhead

3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap

Data platform migration timeline - why lakehouse projects exceed estimates

The Migration That Took Three Years

Dashboard trust problems - why data definition gaps kill executive adoption

The Dashboard Nobody Trusted

Data team burnout causes - context switching costs that kill productivity

Why Your Data Team Is Burned Out

Architecture business alignment - translating technical design into outcomes

Mapping Architecture to Outcomes

Shadow IT governance risk - citizen development hidden costs for data teams

Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt

Data platform ROI calculation - making invisible benefits visible to CFOs

The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates