Joost Boonzajer Flaes

Joost Boonzajer Flaes is the Head of Solution Engineering at Elementary, where he leads a team dedicated to enabling and supporting both customers and the open-source community. With a strong background in data engineering and analytics, he helps organizations seamlessly integrate data observability into their workflows.Before joining Elementary, Joost held multiple leadership roles at IKEA, where he led data and machine learning initiatives, driving analytics and data strategy across the organization. Prior to that, he was a Senior Data Engineer at Heineken and began his career as a Software Engineer at Twitter. His expertise spans data infrastructure, machine learning, and scalable analytics solutions, making him a key advocate for improving data reliability and quality at scale.