Why I'm Starting This Blog

After 16+ years building and leading data engineering and analytics teams — at Meta, Google, Gap Inc., and Dialpad — I've picked up a few lessons worth sharing: what makes a data platform teams actually trust, how to lead engineering teams spread across five countries and time zones, and how to turn messy data into decisions leadership can act on.

This is where I'll write about that — data strategy, team leadership, and the occasional war story from scaling platforms under real business pressure. Thanks for reading, and more soon.

Prateek Kansal

Data Engineering & Analytics Leader with 16+ years building and scaling data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and AI-driven solutions. More about my background →