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Finding Data Engineers A Project-Based Approach
David Drummond Insight Data Engineering
C1 Speaker Series - AppNexus July 20th, 2015
About Me
Using theoretical physics to design massively parallel fault tolerant systems
Insight Fellows Program
Over 250 Fellows at dozens of top tech companies in NY and CA
Finding Data Engineers
It’s hard to find the right people who know the right tools
Building a data team is an opportunity to learn
Projects allow your team and applicants to learn
Attracting Data EngineersOpen Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
Attracting Data EngineersOpen Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
Attracting Data EngineersOpen Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
• Encourage teams to open source useful libraries that solve general problems in the community
Attracting Data EngineersOpen Source projects engage your team
and the right audience of applicants
• Contribute to a well-known open source project
• Encourage teams to open source useful libraries that solve general problems in the community
• Make time for teams to build and speak about projects unrelated to your core product
Attracting Data Engineers
Project-Based ChallengesProjects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly they can learn
Project-Based ChallengesProjects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related to the context of the position
Project-Based ChallengesProjects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related to the context of the position
• Be technology and language agnostic, or be very lenient to language specific details
Project-Based ChallengesProjects allow candidates to not only
show their knowledge, but how quickly they can learn
• Choose projects that are interesting and related to the context of the position
• Be technology and language agnostic, or be very lenient to language specific details
• Allow applicants to submit open source projects in lieu of technical challenges
Project-Based ChallengesOur applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
Project-Based ChallengesOur applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
Project-Based ChallengesOur applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
• Our team gets experience with new open source projects and languages
Project-Based ChallengesOur applicants have a week to complete a
project with real-time Twitter data
• All applicants learn more about data engineering and the accepted Fellows are better prepared
• Our team gets experience with new open source projects and languages
• These changes have led to a 40% increase in our yield of qualified applicants
Project-Based LearningOur Fellows learn the latest open source technologies by building 3 week projects
Inaugural NYC Session begins September
Project-Based Learning
