Shirshanka Das

CTO, Acryl Data

About

Dr. Shirshanka Das is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Acryl Data. Prior to founding Acryl Data, Shirshanka was the overall architect for Big Data at LinkedIn from 2010 to 2020, and responsible for creating the metadata and data management strategy at the company. As part of this, he founded the DataHub project and shaped its evolution to a metadata platform that powers productivity and governance use cases at LinkedIn. He is also a PMC and committer on the Apache Gobblin project which manages 100PB+ of data assets at rest at LinkedIn, and is deployed in production at other large companies like Verizon and PayPal. Prior to LinkedIn, Shirshanka worked on high performance serving systems at Yahoo and PayPal. Shirshanka has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

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PDT - 12:aN AM PDTShift-left governance for your dbt centered stack: Data contracts and more!

Data contracts have been much discussed in the community of late, with a lot of curiosity around how to approach this concept in practice and how it might enable shift-left developer-first governance...

Shirshanka DasCTO, Acryl Data

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