In the past few years, much has been written about problems like discoverability, observability, data quality, and the need for data teams to become more “engineering oriented” in their mindset. Movements like analytics engineering and open source tooling like dbt, Dagster, and Great Expectations have done an amazing job arming data practitioners with the tools that they need to start adopting the best practices of software engineering like modularity, testing, and release management. This shift in mindset has resulted in
…Author: Bryan Offutt
Bryan Offutt
Bryan is an investor at Index Ventures, where he focuses on investments in data, software infrastructure, and machine learning across all stages. He is an investor in Transform Data, Superconductive (makers of Great Expectations), and Deepnote and a board observer at Starburst Data (makers of Trino) and Grid.ai (makers of Pytorch Lightning). Prior to Index, Bryan was a software engineer and product manager at Palantir and SingleStore.