Lester Martin

Trino Developer Advocate - Starburst

October 28-30, 2026Oakland University, Rochester, MI

About Lester

Lester Martin is a seasoned developer advocate, trainer, blogger, data engineer, and polyglot programmer focused on data pipelines & data lake analytics using Trino, Iceberg, Hive, Spark, Flink, Kafka, NiFi, NoSQL databases, and, of course, classical RDBMSs. Learn more about Lester at https://linktr.ee/lestermartin.

Links

linkedin x twitter blog company website

Workshops

WorkshopBeginner8 hr 5 min

Apache Iceberg Deep Dive Workshop

Apache Iceberg gets powerful when you understand the table lifecycle. The value comes from seeing how snapshots, rollback, compaction, and governance fit into the full table lifecycle. "Apache Iceberg Deep Dive Workshop" turns that scenario into a workshop where Lester Martin walks through hands-on work with snapshots, rollback, compaction, and governance basics.

Topic: Software Engineering and Architecture
Time: Oct 28, 2026, 9:00 AM
Room: Room A

Conference Sessions

Conference SessionBeginner60 min

Optimizing Your Apache Iceberg Lakehouse

Slow lakehouse queries often come down to table design and maintenance. While we focus on Apache Iceberg, the techniques apply broadly to Delta Lake and Apache Hive as well. "Optimizing Your Apache Iceberg Lakehouse" keeps the conversation practical as Lester Martin works through Iceberg tactics for stats, compaction, partitioning, and pruning.

Topic: Software Engineering and Architecture
Time: Oct 30, 2026, 1:15 PM
Room: Room A