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Episode 6:

The Technical Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Startup Inside a Large Bank with Sam Bledsoe of Ruby

September 16, 2020

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds continue their conversation about Ruby, a start-up designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, by talking with the Nashville company’s CTO Sam Bledsoe. This follow-up discussion digs into how their data engineering and marketing setups co-exist and how they rely on Azure.

Notes:

  • Sam’s background and more info about Ruby (2:11)
  • Privacy-related challenges at the intersection of banking and medical data (4:33)
  • What to expect from using Azure (15:06)
  • Breaking down the stack (24:44)
  • The need for marketing people with technological skills (36:20)
  • Talking Big Query, RedShift, Spark and data virtualization (41:15)
  • Biggest changes anticipated in moving as a spin-off from the bank (43:59)

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