Alex Merced, Developer Advocate at Dremio, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
Merced has experience as a developer and instructor. His professional journey includes roles at GenEd Systems, Crossfield Digital, CampusGuard, and General Assembly. He co-authored Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide published by O'Reilly and has spoken at notable events such as Data Day Texas and Data Council. He is passionate about technology, sharing his expertise through blogs, videos, podcasts like Datanation and Web Dev 101, and contributions to the JavaScript and Python communities with libraries like SencilloDB and CoquitoJS.
Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost.