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Short bio #
Andrew Jones is a Principal Engineer at GoCardless, one of Europe’s leading Fintechs, and a Google Developer Expert. He thinks a lot about how to build platforms - particularly data platforms - that drives the creation of business value. It was his work on building effective data platforms that facilitated the generation and consumption of quality data led him to coining and defining “data contracts”, and in 2023 he authored the seminal book on the topic.
Longer bio #
Andrew Jones is a Principal Engineer at GoCardless, one of Europe’s leading Fintechs. He has over 15 years’ experience in the industry, with the first half primarily as a software engineer before moving into the data infrastructure and data engineering space.
Joining GoCardless as its first data engineer, he led his team to build their data platform from scratch. After initially following a typical data architecture and getting frustrated with facing the same old challenges we’ve faced for years, he started thinking there must be a better way, which led to him coining and defining the ideas around “data contracts” and later authoring the seminal book on the topic.
Andrew is a regular speaker and writer, and passionate about helping organizations get the most value from data.
Common topics #
- Data contracts
- What are data contracts?
- What problems do they solve?
- How did you come up with data contracts?
- How did you adopt data contracts?
- Data platforms
- What is a contract-based data platform?
- How does a platform reduce cognitive load?
Odd facts #
- Father of 2 (aged 2 and 4)
- Brewer of beer
- I’m aphantastic