Implementing a Modern Data Catalog to Power Data Intelligence

About the Authors

Fadi Maali is a software engineer working with data for the last twelve years. He has experience in building and operating cloud data platforms and in building data ingestion pipelines to support both batch and stream data in a robust, easy to operate, and well-governed manner.

Fadi has a particular focus on data quality and data catalogs. Fadi led the implementation of an internal data catalog during his work at Zendesk. He is also the lead editor of the DCAT Specification, a W3C Recommendation for a vocabulary to describe government data catalogs.

Fadi holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the National University of Ireland Galway. His PhD thesis, submitted in 2016, focused on querying large graph data.

Jason Lim is the director of product and cloud marketing at Alation. Jason cofounded Koombah, a real-estate startup in China, and AsiaRecon, a technology and innovation tour in Australia. Jason was a contributing writer to Forbes Asia, covering startups and tech trends. Jason is originally from Sydney, Australia and now lives in California. You can contact the author via email ([e-mail]), on Twitter, or LinkedIn.