Summary: In this episode we speak to Matt McDevitt, Director of Data Engineering at Think Big Analytics. We talk about: - his journey working in the US, UK, Europe and Japan as the company grew, - how big data, open source, data engineering and data science work together, - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Personally Identifiable Information (PII), data lineage - business value, data products and much more! Matt is one of Think Big’s earliest team members playing many roles to help incubate and build Think Big over its 8-year history into the leading Big Data Analytics Global brand. He helped build from scratch and establish Think Big practices in the United States in Mountain View, Salt Lake City, New York, London and Toyko. Matt assisted in the development of Think Big’s innovative Velocity Delivery methodology, which integrates Data Engineering and Data Science in 6-week release cycles. Show notes: www.datafuturology.com/podcast/9 Matt is based in: Tokyo, Japan --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/datafuturology/message
