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# Matt Martin

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Staff Engineer, State Farm

Matt is a data engineering professional with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering scalable data solutions. He previously served as a Senior Manager of Data Engineering at Home Depot, and currently works on complex cloud data integration challenges at State Farm. Matt is co-author of the O'Reilly book DuckLake: The Definitive Guide.

## 1 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[55:29](/videos/ducklake-definitive-guide-oreilly-book/)[2026-04-02](/videos/ducklake-definitive-guide-oreilly-book/)

### [All About DuckLake: The O'Reilly Book](/videos/ducklake-definitive-guide-oreilly-book/)

Matt Martin and Alex Monahan, coauthors of O'Reilly's DuckLake: The Definitive Guide, discuss what DuckLake is, how it simplifies lakehouse architecture, and why it replaces file-based metadata with a SQL database. Includes a live Q&A and the release of Chapter 1.

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