About

Mara is fueled by helping people discover the value of well-organized and efficient queries. As the lead data engineer at Bazean, she helps scale data systems for energy investing. She has worked in a variety of data management roles for over 10 years, including helping start ups establish their inventory management systems and working with non-profit groups to measure and promote their successes.


Mara Lemagie has presented the following presentations

    Mara Lemagie Career Panel at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Mara Lemagie

    SQL has remained relevant across multiple decades, yet relative to the standard software engineer I to III career path, the routes taken by database professionals are often described as non-traditional. In this panel we will address the imposter syndrome that is a particular risk in this type of space. Also come for insights from top hiring managers and seasoned professionals regarding which sk...

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    Professional Development, Life and Leadership
    Mara Lemagie Data Pipelines for Data as a Service (Wide Data) at Postgres Conference 2020

    presented by Mara Lemagie

    VERY Rough Draft

    For work flows that require pulling in data from diverse sources (size, shape, frequency, context) of data and merging together for analysis, this talk covers the best practices we have developed for loading, tracking, validating, and merging these disparate datasets to ensure optimal flexibility. In the use cases explored all data come from external datasets with constant...

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    Data Science
    Mara Lemagie Query Optimization for Excel People at Postgres Conference

    presented by Mara Lemagie

    No matter what your current level of interacting with databases, everyone should have at the ready ways of explaining how databases work, whether it is to your grandmother or non-database oriented coworkers. This talk will be equally useful to new PG users who want to build good habits for writing their queries and seasoned veterans who are recruiting and training new data professionals. We wil...

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    Thu 21 2019 Ops and Administration