Wrangle Summit 2021

Debanjan Saha is the GM of Data Analytics at Google where he leads the strategy and execution of analytics services in GCP. Prior to joining Google, Debanjan was VP of Amazon Aurora and RDS at Amazon Web Services. Earlier in his career Debanjan held multiple executive and technical leadership positions at IBM and Tellium. Debanjan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM. He has co-authored a book, 50+ patent applications, and numerous technical articles including award winning papers and Internet standards. He received MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, and a B.Tech from IIT, all in Computer Science. In 2019, Business Insider named him as one of the top 10 technology executives transforming business.

Adam is CEO of Trifacta and has over 25 years of experience in leadership roles focused on data integration and analytics. Under his leadership, Trifacta has become the global leader in data wrangling, serving thousands of companies worldwide. Prior to Trifacta, Adam was GM of Informatica’s ILM division. He also served as SVP of Product Management for Informatica’s flagship data integration products. Adam co-founded Zimba, an analytics company. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an engineering degree from Northwestern University.

Matei Zaharia is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Technologist at Databricks. He started the Apache Spark open source project in 2009 as well as the MLflow open source machine learning platform, and helped design other widely used open source data and ML infrastructure including Spark SQL and Delta Lake. Matei’s academic research work was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation in computer science, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Salah Khawaja is the Managing Director of Automation / Global Risk at Bank of America. He’s responsible for overseeing the transition from a highly manual testing program to a fully automated process, resulting in reduced operational and compliance risk for the Bank. Prior to joining Bank of America, he spent 15 years at Deloitte and JP Morgan running large scale technology transformation projects across various disciplines. Salah has a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Masters in Telecommunication and Network Management from Syracuse University. He is certified as an Agile Scrum Master and Project Management Professional.

Eileen M. Vidrine is the Air Force Chief Data Officer, Headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. She develops and implements strategies for enterprise data management, analytics, and digital transformation to optimize performance and drive innovation in and across all missions and operations. Ms. Vidrine began her government career in 1986 as an enlisted member of the U.S. Army and was commissioned in 1987 through the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School Program as a Transportation Officer. Later in her Army career, she was selected and integrated into the U.S. Army Acquisition Corps. She began her civilian career as a senior faculty member at the Joint Military Intelligence College and led the college’s technology transformation as the first Director for the Center for Educational Technologies. From 2006 to 2012, Ms. Vidrine served in various positions of leadership at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) culminating as the Chief of Staff for the Assistant DNI for Human Capital. In 2012, she was selected to serve as the DoD Intelligence Community Enterprise Architect assigned to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, Human Capital Management Office (HCMO), and in 2014 assumed HCMO chief of staff responsibilities. In 2016, Ms. Vidrine was selected as a White House Leadership Fellow, supporting the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management. After her fellowship she was detailed to the Executive Office of the President Office of Administration. Ms. Vidrine was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in June 2018.

Randy Santiano has 20+ years of working within the Life Science and Pharmaceutical Industry. His experiences range from laboratory sciences as a Chemist to developing software applications as a Technical Specialist. He enjoys exploring new and emerging technologies and prefers to collaborate with diverse groups to solve problems. Randy currently works at Eli Lilly as an Associate Consultant within the Clinical Design, Delivery, and Analytics (CDDA) organization.

Ells Campbell is a computational biologist at CDC. Residing in the Laboratory Branch of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, he leads development of an outbreak response tool called MicrobeTrace. To support COVID-19 response, Ells assists epidemiologists around the country in cleaning, visualizing, and exploring contact network data collected during contact tracing interviews.

Kalynn Kennon joined IDDO in August 2016. As Head of Data Engineering, she is responsible for the development of data standards, the robustness of the curation process, assuring the quality of the data, and the efficiency of the data curation team.

Andrew is a data solutions professional with over 10 years’ experience with data engineering, business intelligence, solution architecture and management. He has worked extensively in the healthcare sector and is currently focused on data pipeline engineering for the Covid-19 Genomic Research Environment.

Tristan Handy is the CEO and Founder of Fishtown Analytics, a Philadelphia startup pioneering the practice of modern analytics engineering. Fishtown’s product, dbt, is used by over 3,000 companies to organize, catalog, and distill knowledge from the data in their data warehouses, including companies like JetBlue, HubSpot, GitLab, and the ACLU.
Tristan has been working in data for two decades in both in-house and consulting roles with both large enterprises and small startups.

Barr Moses is CEO & Co-Founder of Monte Carlo, a data reliability company backed by Accel, GGV, Redpoint, and other top Silicon Valley investors. Previously, she was VP Customer Operations at customer success company Gainsight, where she helped scale the company 10x in revenue and among other functions, built the data/analytics team. Prior to that, she was a management consultant at Bain & Company and a research assistant at the Statistics Department at Stanford. She also served in the Israeli Air Force as a commander of an intelligence data analyst unit. Barr graduated from Stanford with a B.Sc. in Mathematical and Computational Science.

Rob Woollen is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder at Sigma Computing where he empowers business leaders and domain experts to ask any question of their data without writing a single line of SQL. He has more than two decades of experience building distributed and cloud systems. Prior to founding Sigma, Woollen was the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and he worked at Salesforce.com for more than six, serving in several roles including, Chief Technology Officer for the platform and Work.com. Previously, he was at BEA Systems and HP, and is the inventor on numerous patents. Woollen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Adam is CEO of Trifacta and has over 25 years of experience in leadership roles focused on data integration and analytics. Under his leadership, Trifacta has become the global leader in data wrangling, serving thousands of companies worldwide. Prior to Trifacta, Adam was GM of Informatica’s ILM division. He also served as SVP of Product Management for Informatica’s flagship data integration products. Adam co-founded Zimba, an analytics company. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an engineering degree from Northwestern University.

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for over 10 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and is a named inventor on more than 80 patents.

Joe is Trifacta’s Chief Strategy Officer, Co-founder and Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His career in research and industry has focused on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. Fortune Magazine included him in their list of 50 smartest people in technology , and MIT’s Technology Review magazine included his work on their TR10 list of the 10 technologies “most likely to change our world”.

Vijay Balasubramaniam leverages his expertise in data management to help partners and customers be successful in large-scale analytics initiatives. He has over 18 years of experience helping large organizations manage their data sets and produce insights. He specializes in best-in-class data preparation workflows and developing end-to-end solutions on the AWS platform. Outside of work, he enjoys biking, tennis, music and spending time with family.

Ryan Rolf is the Channel Program Leader and Sr. Business Development Manager on AWS Data Exchange at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, Ryan drives strategic collaborations and programs for AWS Data Exchange, which is a service that makes it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Prior to AWS, Ryan has held multiple other startup technology leadership roles.

Zack Pike is the CIO at Callahan and is an analytics mastermind, scouring mounds of information to uncover key insights that keep our clients ahead of the curve. His expertise in designing margin-generating strategic opportunities applies to companies in many different verticals. Previously, Zack was director at Alight Analytics, where he led a cross-functional consulting team providing marketing strategy and analytics to B2B and B2C executives. When he’s not digging into big data for clients, Zack moonlights as a youth b-ball and t-ball coach, analyzing plays for that winning edge.

James started PlusUp in 2016 with a business partner after managing more than $50 million on paid social advertising for numerous Fortune 500 clients including Target, Allstate, AT&T and more. Over the past five years, he has led a team that has managed over $250MM+ in media spend while also developing PlusUp analytics practice to help automated all reporting and analysis for their clients.

Brad Parkel is Director of Marketing at Singlewire Software and has led marketing efforts with the company since its founding in 2009. Experienced and accomplished in all facets of B2B marketing; from video, graphics and multimedia production, to data analysis, wrangling, and email communications, Brad aligns business goals and objectives with tactical marketing campaigns and execution. Brad attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communication Studies-Radio/TV/Film emphasis. Brad volunteers his time advising local public schools on business, marketing and IT curriculum.

Phil Lacorteheads revenue operations at Trifacta where using data is a must to find our biggest opportunities to increase productivity. He is no stranger to marketing analytics using it as key leading indicators and creating pipeline throughout his career including Xactly, Informatica, and Host Analytics (now Planful).

Connor Carreras leads SaaS adoption and enablement efforts at Trifacta, where she leverages Trifacta’s centralized data warehouse for insights about customer behavior. She can write SQL and code (but finds both to be a pain), and as such, avoids calling herself a data engineer. Connor previously worked at Informatica and Microsoft.

César Jardim leads strategic initiatives around Trifacta’s central data hub. Previously he led our operationalization and orchestration initiatives. Before joining Trifacta he was a product manager in the content management space.

Bekkie Brown, CSPO‎ Supervisor – Data Engineering & Analytics Technology Bekkie Brown is currently the Supervisor of Data Engineering & Analytics Technology at Amway. She has been with Amway for 14 years and held a number of roles both within IT and the Business. Bekkie has led the team through the implementation of Google Cloud while promoting self-service for their Analytics Community. This is the first self-service initiative for transforming raw data into curated business friendly tables that has been executed outside of IT. Aside from leading the Data Engineers, she also leads a team of Operations Analysts who are supporting the platform, production pipelines and Analysts.

Dharshini currently works with SPAR International, Netherlands as a Business Data Analyst and is collaborating with Partners across the globe. She works in end to end data project starting from data gathering, wrangling to data analysis. She has a Masters’ degree in Data Science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She started her career at Capgemini, India as an Analyst where she worked with world’s leading retail clients to bridge the gap between strategy, business and numerical facts. After moving to Australia, she joined Honeywell as a Data Scientist( Intern). At Honeywell, she was involved in a groundbreaking Machine learning project (Cognitive Building Project) followed by which she continued to work in ML Projects at Monash University (Buildings and Property division).

Joe is Trifacta’s Chief Strategy Officer, Co-founder and Jim Gray Chair of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His career in research and industry has focused on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. Fortune Magazine included him in their list of 50 smartest people in technology , and MIT’s Technology Review magazine included his work on their TR10 list of the 10 technologies “most likely to change our world”.

Jeff is Trifacta’s Chief Experience Officer, Co-founder and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, where he directs the Interactive Data Lab. Jeff’s passion is the design of novel user interfaces for exploring, managing and communicating data. The data visualization tools developed by his lab (D3.js, Protovis, Prefuse) are used by thousands of data enthusiasts around the world. In 2009, Jeff was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of “Top Innovators under 35”.

Paul is Trifacta’s Chief Customer Officer and is responsible for ensuring that Trifacta’s customers drive value with its solutions. Prior to joining Trifacta, Paul was co-founder and Chief Customer Officer at Birst, the leading SaaS BI Platform. He also developed, launched and built Siebel’s Sales Analytics product family, the industry’s leading Sales Analytics solution at the time. Paul holds an MBA from Stanford, a master’s from MIT and a bachelor’s from Yale.

Kevin is part of a core team of data engineers/scientists/analysts who have been tasked to design and implement digital transformation at Amway. Supported by nearly 20 years of experience in data analysis, visualization, and architecture, his current engineering role involves building capability infrastructure and data solutions on Google Cloud Platform.