
Modern data warehousing and data engineering viewed as specialized software engineering with Ken Farmer, Data Engineering Manager at Alto Pharmacy
About this episode
Meet: Ken is the data engineering manager at Alto Pharmacy - which offers free, same-day medication delivery to customers. Alto's data engineering team supports the entire business with a large focus on improving the logistical efficiency of the organization.
Ken's career has focused on data engineering in which he has held a variety of roles in management, data engineering, and data architecture roles, and worked as both an employee and consultant. Ken feels that data engineering is a specialization of software engineering - and benefits from many of the same process innovations - around testing, agile, DevOps, and dataops methodologies.
What you’ll learn:
What does a modern data warehousing solution look like
Data engineering shift from GUI tools to software engineering
Data engineering viewed as specialized software engineering
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