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Episode 66:

How Data Infrastructure Has Evolved and Managing High Performing Data Teams with Srivatsan Sridharan

December 15, 2021

​​This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talked with Srivatsan Sridharan,  Head of Data Infrastructure at Robinhood. During the episode, Srivatsan discusses his experience helping to build a data team at Yelp, how organizations have evolved their view of data engineering over the years, and how organizations have evolved their view of data engineering.

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Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Starting his career on the first-ever data team at Yelp (2:00)
  • How to approach the adoption of new technology (7:04)
  • When to use stream processing vs. batching (11:35)
  • What is a pipeline and why is it core to a data engineer? (14:07)
  • Where a new data scientist should begin their career (19:14)
  • The key factors impacting a new technology decision (27:09)
  • Managing team emotions in decision making (34:25)
  • The unique challenge of Fintech vs other consumer industries (45:03)

 

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