Data Platform a "product"

Melbourne

Data meets the real world

Data Platforms are composite and complex ecosystems requiring cloud infrastructure, software, tooling, security, governance and heaps of data.

They need to be provided in a timely fashion without compromising the aspects of reliability, scale and usability. This talk is about our journey at Xero - the approach we have taken to architect, decentralise design and the pragmatic automation strategy adopted to build our environment.

About Kavi

Kavi has over 25 years of experience, spanning 2 continents, executing various software and platform technology-based deliveries within complex environments.
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Her career has allowed her to work in the insurance, government, lotteries, accounting, financial, banking, and telecommunications industries. Joining Xero three years ago, Kavi has played a critical role in initiating the architecture, build and ongoing journey of XADE - Xero’s Analytical Data Environment to enable the data savvy Xero vision and reimagining ‘Data Platforms as a Product’ within Xero.