Alex Merced is Head of DevRel at Dremio with experience as a developer and instructor. His professional journey includes roles at GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard, and General Assembly. He has co-authored "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" and "Apache Polaris: The Definitive Guide" published by O'Reilly along with "Architecting and Apache Iceberg Lakehouse" with Manning. Alex has spoken globally at notable events such as SQLbits, DataEngBytes, Data Day Texas, Data Council and more. Alex is passionate about technology, sharing his expertise through blogs, videos, podcast "Alex Merced's Tech Podcast", and has made contributions to the JavaScript, Rust and Python communities with libraries like SencilloDB and CoquitoJS. Also creator of the Pangolin Open Source Lakehouse Catalog.
