Cursor Cape Town Meetup x Mukuru: Cursor for Data Engineering

​Join the Cursor community in Cape Town for an evening at Mukuru with a talk, food, Cursor credits for attendees and plenty of time to chat with other builders.

​The talk: From Jira Ticket to Snowflake MR: AI-Assisted Data Engineering at Mukuru

​Mukuru’s Data Engineering team does not use Cursor only inside an IDE. Daily work spans Snowflake DDL and validation in GitLab, Matillion and Maia pipeline operations, Jira tickets and worklogs, DevOps intake over email, and coordination in Slack and Teams. Re-explaining context on every prompt does not scale.
This session shows how the team encodes that reality in Cursor rules, project context, and skills: CLI-first habits (Jira, Snowflake, GitLab), safe defaults (environments, roles, change control), and MCP where chat must reach Slack or Confluence. You will see the mental model (workspace, repo, and ticket sandbox), how agents stay aligned with schema change via Liquibase and branch naming, and what broke or needed guardrails along the way.

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​You'll take away:

• ​A pattern for layering org, team, and repo rules

• ​When to prefer CLI vs MCP

• ​A practical map of AI-assisted data engineering across warehouse, ETL, and collaboration tools, without treating production systems as a demo playground

​Speaker: Paul Hansen

Paul Hansen is a Data Engineering Manager at Mukuru, where he helps run pipelines, warehouses, and the tooling that keeps financial data moving reliably. His team uses Cursor not as a standalone code assistant but as a governed workspace: layered rules, skills, and sandbox workflows that tie Snowflake (Liquibase CI/CD), Matillion and Maia, GitLab, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email into one repeatable way of working. Paul is presenting how that setup was built in practice: what lives in rules, what stays on the CLI, and where MCP fits when there is no command line.

​Agenda

• ​17:30 Doors open & networking

• ​18:15 Welcome

• ​18:30 Paul's talk and Q&A

• ​19:30 Food & Networking

• ​20:30 Close

​Cursor credits will be available for attendees on the night.