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O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Mark Grover

Mark Grover
Product Manager, Lyft

@mark_grover

Mark Grover is a product manager at Lyft. Mark’s a committer on Apache Bigtop, a committer and PPMC member on Apache Spot (incubating), and a committer and PMC member on Apache Sentry. He’s also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, and Apache Flume. He’s a coauthor of Hadoop Application Architectures and wrote a section in Programming Hive. Mark is a sought-after speaker on topics related to big data. He occasionally blogs on topics related to technology.

Sessions

14:05–14:45 Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Disrupting data discovery
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: S11 B
Mark Grover (Lyft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.64, 11 ratings)
Mark Grover discusses how Lyft has reduced the time it takes to discover data by 10 times by building its own data portal, Amundsen. Mark gives a demo of Amundsen, leads a deep dive into its architecture, and discusses how it leverages centralized metadata, PageRank, and a comprehensive data graph to achieve its goal. Mark closes with a future roadmap, unsolved problems, and collaboration model. Read more.
14:55–15:35 Wednesday, 1 May 2019
The Lyft data platform: Now and in the future
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: Capital Suite 8/9
Secondary topics:  Data Integration and Data Pipelines, Data Platforms, Data preparation, data governance, and data lineage, Model lifecycle management, Security and Privacy, Transportation and Logistics
Mark Grover (Lyft), Deepak Tiwari (Lyft)
Average rating: ****.
(4.69, 13 ratings)
Lyft’s data platform is at the heart of the company's business. Decisions from pricing to ETA to business operations rely on Lyft’s data platform. Moreover, it powers the enormous scale and speed at which Lyft operates. Mark Grover and Deepak Tiwari walk you through the choices Lyft made in the development and sustenance of the data platform, along with what lies ahead in the future. Read more.