# Simon Späti Simon Späti (aka sspaeti) is a Swiss data engineer and technical writer with 20+ years of experience in data engineering, who pivoted into technical authorship. He runs SSP Data GmbH (founded 2025) and writes ssp.sh, a top-ranked data engineering blog and public "second brain" with 1,000+ interlinked notes covering data engineering, writing, PKM, and digital gardening. ## Known For - ssp.sh — Data Engineering Blog & Second Brain, one of the most-followed independent data engineering blogs - Writing a living, freely-accessible book: *Patterns of Data Engineering (DEDP)* at [dedp.online](https://www.dedp.online/) — not to be confused with the unrelated O'Reilly book of a similar title by Bartosz Konieczny - Practical Data Engineering — an open-source hands-on GitHub project (Dagster, Delta Lake, delta-rs) used widely as a learning resource - Former Data Engineer & Technical Author at Airbyte; also published on Towards Data Science, freeCodeCamp, Hackernoon - Recognized as a top writer on Quora (data engineering, since 2020) and a top-25 influencer/content creator by Databand ## Recent Activity ### August 2026 - Active on X/Twitter discussing tooling choices (e.g. asked about git diff viewers, tried ClickHouse locally with 22M rows via Neovim/CLI) - Continuing freelance technical writing/consulting via SSP Data GmbH (ssp.sh/services) - Ongoing monthly updates to the *Patterns of Data Engineering* living book, including a recent Dynamic Query Design Pattern chapter - Published essay "Why I Still Blog — and Why the Future of Blogging Is Connected" - "Now" page last updated March 16, 2026 ## Quotes ```dataview LIST FROM [[Simon Späti]] WHERE contains(tags, "type/quote") ``` ## Books ```dataview LIST FROM [[Simon Späti]] WHERE contains(tags, "type/book") ``` ## Related - Referenced in [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 057 - It's later than you think]] (his article "Personal Knowledge Management Workflow for a Deeper Life — as a Computer Scientist") - Mentioned in daily note 2023-05-19 (link to his PKM blog post) ## References - https://www.ssp.sh/about/ - https://www.ssp.sh/ - https://www.dedp.online/ - https://x.com/sspaeti - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sspaeti/ - https://github.com/sspaeti/ - https://substack.com/@sspaeti - https://airbyte.com/blog-authors/simon-spati