Lester Martin is a seasoned developer advocate, trainer, blogger, developer, and architect with three decades of experience in software development and data engineering. He has spent the last decade focused on data pipelines and data lake analytics using Trino, Iceberg, Hive, Spark, Flink, Kafka, NiFi, NoSQL databases, and, of course, classical RDBMSs. He has used SQL in all stages of his career. Lester is a polyglot programmer, but feels most productive in Java and Python. He is well-versed in a variety of Dataframe APIs. Having consulted, taught, written, and presented on Apache Iceberg since 2022, Lester Martin is an expert on optimizing Iceberg lakehouses.
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