Tom Becker

Staff engineer · data platforms

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Tom has spent a decade building data infrastructure at companies from 50 to 5,000 people. He's the person teams call when the pipeline works but nobody knows why. His newsletter on data engineering trade-offs has 18,000 subscribers.

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As a guest

Expertise: Data platforms at scale. Tom rebuilt a 4PB warehouse migration with zero downtime and lived to write about it.
Talking points: The data stack is fine — your ownership model is broken
Migrating a warehouse without a maintenance window
Staff engineer lessons: influence without authority
Proof: Migration write-up

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Time zone: America/Chicago

Generally free: Wed · 9 AM–12 PM; Fri · 9–11 AM

Wed/Fri mornings CT

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