About this episode
A strong data-driven mindset underpins how fintech teams scale analytics, infrastructure and decision-making across the business.In this episode, Jaime Oliveira, Lead Data Engineer at Uphold, joins us to discuss how Uphold structures its data organization and orchestration strategy. Jaime shares how the team uses Airflow and dbt to support analytics, reporting and data activation while evolving their approach as the stack grows.Key Takeaways:00:00 Introduction.01:23 A data-driven mindset supports product development and business decisions.02:55 Diverse ingestion pipelines enable scalable analytics.04:18 A single orchestration platform simplifies analytics workflows.05:17 Early experience with orchestration tools shapes engineering practices.08:16 Analytics orchestration works best when aligned with transformation workflows.09:25 Infrastructure choices involve tradeoffs in testing, visibility and overhead.16:39 More collaborative workflow tools could improve accessibility and autonomy.Resources Mentioned:Jaime Oliveirahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-oliveira-b075855a/Uphold | LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/upholdinc/
