Stephen has worked as a data scientist, analyst, manager, and engineer, and loves all the domains equally. He currently works at Whatnot, a collectibles marketplace that focuses on live shopping, and has previously worked in privacy tech at Immuta. He has his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in educational cognitive neuroscience, but it has yet to help him understand why his three children are so crazy.
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Stephen has worked as a data scientist, analyst, manager, and engineer, and loves all the domains equally. He currently works at Whatnot, a collectibles marketplace that focuses on live shopping, and has previously worked in privacy tech at Immuta. He has his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in educational cognitive neuroscience, but it has yet to help him understand why his three children are so crazy.
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SUMMARY
Stephen discusses his experience working with data platforms, particularly the challenges of training and sharing knowledge among different stakeholders. This talk highlights the importance of having clear priorities and a sense of practicality and mentions the use of modular job design and data classification to make it easier for end users to understand which data to use.
Stephen also mentions the importance of being able to move quickly and not getting bogged down in the quest for perfection. We recommend Stephen's blog post "Airflow's Problem" for further reading.
