DBTB INT Josh Wills r
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Says working as director of data engineering at Slack and argues that tech advantage now often comes from a defensible data advantage held by companies like Google and Facebook. Calls data infrastructure "horrible" across the board and gives concrete experience from both ends of the stack, including debugging hardware, software engineering, ops, statistics and high‑level ML. Recommends becoming a great data scientist by getting very good at many adjacent skills and then inserting oneself into data problems.
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