Andrew Jones

Staff Data Engineer at LocalStack

Bio

Andrew is a Staff+ Engineer, author, and trainer. He thinks a lot about how to build platforms, especially data platforms that drive the creation of business value from data. His work on building performant, efficient, and well governed data platforms that facilitate the production and consumption of quality data led him to coining and defining "data contracts", and in 2023 he authored the well-received book Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts.

Previous Community Presentations

Data quality: prevention is better than the cure

With a focus on preventing problems instead of correcting them later, this session highlights how quality principles and upstream controls help teams produce cleaner data and more stable analytics.