Dusan is engineering manager and technical team lead at Foursquare. His current focus is the Movements team and building data pipelines transforming GPS pings into people’s movements patterns. He spent a big part of his career as a data architect, building large scale data processing platforms, mostly in AWS cloud. At his younger age, he worked as a remote resource in the pre-covid era and a body-to-be leased in several nearshoring companies.

This talk explores strategies for scaling Apache Airflow to handle complex data workflows. It will cover best practices for orchestration at scale, managing greedy DAGs, optimizing heavy operators, and ensuring robust performance in high-throughput environments. Attendees will leave with practical insights to enhance Airflow’s efficiency and reliability, unlocking its full potential for modern data pipelines.