Tamara Mendt is a Data Engineer at HelloFresh, a meal kit delivery service headquartered in Berlin, and one of the top 3 tech startups to come out of Europe over the past 4 years. She devotes her time to building data pipelines and designing and maintaining the company's data infrastructure. Tamara has a computer engineering degree from her native country Venezuela, and an Erasmus Mundus Masters degree in IT for Business Intelligence. She wrote her Master thesis at the TU Berlin with the research group where Apache Flink was born. At HelloFresh she is continuing to work with distributed technologies such has Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka and Apache Spark to cope with the scalability that the fast growing company requires for dealing with their data.