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Modern data warehousing and data engineering viewed as specialized software engineering with Ken Farmer, Data Engineering Manager at Alto Pharmacy

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 8:20 p.m.

Meet:  Ken is the data engineering manager at Alto Pharmacy - which offers free, same-day medication delivery to customers.   Alto's data engineering team supports the entire business with a large focus on improving the logistical efficiency of the organization.

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Ken's career has focused on data engineering in which he has held a variety of roles in management,  data engineering, and data architecture roles, and worked as both an employee and consultant.   Ken feels that data engineering is a specialization of software engineering - and benefits from many of the same process innovations - around testing, agile, DevOps, and dataops methodologies.

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What you\u2019ll learn:

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What does a modern data warehousing solution look like

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Data engineering shift from GUI tools to software engineering

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Data engineering viewed as specialized software engineering

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If you would like to get in touch with Ken regarding anything discussed on this episode, please connect via:

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenfar/