How do you transition from traditional, waterfall data solution delivery to agile, CI/CD data engineering practices while maintaining good governance standards and proper SLAs? The answer: Automation! 

Dive into how Amfam Group was able to automate traditionally manual processes, such as the review and approval of new data structures, to enable engineers and analysts to continuously deliver and derive insight from their data without bottlenecks. Anil will share how “metadata normalization” – including naming conventions, data classification, and data access – played a key role in the journey to automation.

In this session, you will learn:

• What it takes to transition to agile, CI/CD data product-focused delivery 
• The steps toward automating your data governance processes
• Why a data catalog tool is crucial for metadata normalization
• How Amfam Group has purpose-built data governance into engineering pipelines and has met SLAs for two years straight and counting

Speaker: Anil Kumar Kunden

Anil Kumar Kunden is a Data Governance specialist at Amfam Group (formerly American Family Insurance) and has been there for about 6 years. In his role, some of the things Anil has helped define, build and monitor are the Automation of Governance processes, Row Level Security in Google Cloud (GCP), GCP Data Ingestion Standards and GCP Data Access for Users and Service Accounts. He works extensively across the Enterprise with Data Engineers in IT and Business teams to help them understand the GCP landscape and succeed in their implementations. Prior to Amfam, Anil has over 10+ years of experience working in Business Intelligence area as a Data Architect developing and implementing solutions at various organizations.