Lars Meijer

Overview

Principal Engineer at IKEA, focused on data pipelines. Shipped 28 launches on the data platform team without a rollback. Grew the data platform team from 6 to 40 engineers.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2025 - Present
   IKEA · 1 yr · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Sit on 7 boards.
   • Led or co-led 34 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
2. Data Engineer

   Aug 2022 - Oct 2025
   McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Ran 136 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
   • Taught SQL to 151 non-analysts.
3. Data Engineer

   Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
   Glovo · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Ran 98 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
4. Data Engineer

   Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
   Santander · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
5. Data Engineer

   Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
   Siemens · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 2 weeks to 5 days.

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Education

1. Humboldt University of Berlin

   BA, Mathematics
   2009 - 2012