Turning big data into knowledge: Managing metadata and data relationships at Uber's scale

Kaan Onuk is an engineering manager at Uber, where he leads the metadata management team on the Big Data org. Previously, he was a tech lead at Uber, where he designed and built infrastructure to power data discovery and data privacy, and he helped build data infrastructure from the ground up at Graphiq, a startup acquired by Amazon. Kaan holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California.

Luyao Li is a technical lead manager on the data platform team at Uber, where he manages the data lineage team, which builds systems including end-to-end data flow tracking, latency tracking, and cost attribution and pricing. Previously he built multiple systems spanning from service discovery, configuration management, and ad campaign results tracking and reporting as a software engineer at Electronic Arts. He holds a master’s degree from Duke University.

Atul Gupte is a product manager on the product platform team at Uber, where he helps drive product decisions to ensure Uber’s data science teams are able to achieve their full potential by providing access to foundational infrastructure, stable compute resources, and advanced tooling to power Uber’s global ambitions. Previously, he built some of the world’s leading social games and helped build out the mobile advertising platform at Zynga. He holds a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.