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Thijs Cobben – Data Alchemist

Data Alchemist

Forging gold from data

Sparring partner for data roadmaps.

I work with senior data leaders at European mid-market organisations who already have a platform, a team, and a problem they can’t quite name — and need a sparring partner with pattern recognition, not another framework.

40 yrs
in the data craft
6 wks
to a clear diagnosis
EU
mid-market focus

⚓ Currently on the hard near Roscoff, Brittany, for repairs.

Worked with teams at
Talpa eCommerce
Het Kadaster
Rabobank
Rijkswaterstaat
Booking.com
How we work together

Two ways in

Both are fixed scope and fixed price. You know what you get and what it costs before we start.

€15,000 · six weeks

Data Foundations Sparring

Six weeks of structured sparring for a data leader who needs to think out loud with someone who has seen this pattern before. Fortnightly deep sessions, async access in between, and a written read on what is actually going on.

€30,000–45,000 · 8–12 weeks

Data Architecture Audit & Roadmap

A full read of your platform, your team’s working patterns and your governance, ending in a sequenced roadmap your board can fund and your engineers actually believe in.

Free first chapter

History of Data

From Cave Paintings to Lakehouses

Forty years of pattern recognition, told through the history of how humans have stored, moved and argued about data — from carved shells to the lakehouse. Chapter one is free.

PDF and EPUB. No credit card, no sales call.

Speaking

Talks for teams that have heard enough frameworks

Keynotes and in-house sessions on the long history of data and what it tells us about the platform decisions in front of you now. Practical, funny where it earns it, and free of vendor slides.

Not sure which conversation you need?

Take the thirty-minute Data Health Call. No deck, no pitch — you describe the problem, I tell you what I think it actually is and whether I am the right person for it.