2025

I’m Chozhan, a leader in Data and Machine Learning space with a total of 13 years of experience, presently working with Blacklane leading cross functional data teams and initiatives that provide data products to steer the business forward.

Living in Berlin for about six years. Through my professional journey, I worked for different industries like e-commerce, food-tech, manufacturing, telecom, retail, and so on and also for various organisations in different countries, physically in Europe (Germany and Netherlands), South Africa and India, and also remotely with organisations in the United States and Japan where I have led diverse data professionals: engineers, scientists, and analysts.

Beyond my professional life, I’m passionate about mentoring and coaching aspiring professionals, particularly in data and leadership. So you can find me on online The Mentoring Club or organizing monthly meetups in Berlin on the engineering leadership.

Joris is the CTO for AWS of the Xebia Cloud service line and has been working with the AWS cloud since 2009 and focussing on building event-driven architectures. While working with the cloud from (almost) the start, he has seen most of the services being launched.

Joris strongly believes in automation and infrastructure as code and is open to learning new things and experimenting with them because that is the way to learn and grow.

Julian is a Field CTO at Xebia Data, specializing in Data and AI. He enjoys building Data & AI platforms and products, as well as the teams that drive them. Julian has 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering and MLOps. He’s designed and built Data & AI platforms and Golden Paths in all three major clouds, as well with open-source on Kubernetes, and more recently on sovereign Data & AI platforms that keep you in control of your workloads, data and infrastructure.