Welcome to the data product thinking newsletter
I’m excited to see you here.
It means you understand the importance of considering data as a product. Or that you don’t understand how your organization's data strategy is a complete mess. Or why you need to wait months to get the data you need. Or how managing a data platform became so overwhelming that you just want to leave.
Yes, I know. I have been there multiple times. Usually, it all ends in the same way. Just throwing more people into the problem. I want to help organizations to do things differently.
As such, I will be covering 4 main topics:
Product principles applied to data (science and engineering)
The required shift in the organization of data teams
The evolution of the modern data stack
The journey to Data Mesh
About me
My name is Diogo Silva Santos. I’m a Senior Data Leader at Fujitsu. Before that, I played multiple data and business intelligence roles where I witnessed the struggle to access quality data and the lack of structured processes, from experimentation to deployment.
I’ve also met several data engineers and personally felt the frustration to provide quality data without a proper business context and the lack of a clear understanding of how data will be used and by whom.
The conclusions are simple. Building data pipelines or machine learning models without a product-thinking approach, lead to poorer results and lower levels of adoption.
If you want to play a key role in shaping how data projects are conducted in organizations, then you came to the right place.
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Thank you so much and let’s talk again soon.