Building 12-Factor Data Apps with Kedro

Ivan spent the first five years of his career in Web Development in his hometown of Sofia, where he created websites in Macromedia Flash, PHP, RubyOnRails, and jQuery. Later on, Ivan worked on an insurance aggregator platform in Copenhagen based on Ruby and Java and was exposed to Docker in its early days.

Ivan's brief experience with Java took him to Ocado Technology in the UK, where he worked on a cutting-edge software for their second-generation automated warehouses, a highly available distributed system based on Akka and Scala. During his time in Ocado, Ivan had a taste of running and supporting a complex system in production by joining the DevOps support rota for the whole warehouse and dealing with a couple of large-scale incidents.

Five years ago Ivan joined QuantumBlack, a data science consultancy owned by McKinsey, where he applied all his previous experience in Software Engineering to bring better engineering practices to the data world. All that eventually resulted in the creation of Kedro, a framework for rapid application development of data pipelines, which Ivan currently still works on.

At the moment Demetrios is immersing himself in Machine Learning by interviewing experts from around the world in the weekly MLOps.community meetups. Demetrios is constantly learning and engaging in new activities to get uncomfortable and learn from his mistakes. He tries to bring creativity into every aspect of his life, whether that be analyzing the best paths forward, overcoming obstacles, or building lego houses with his daughter.