DET London June Meetup - Financial Services Focus
🎉 Get ready for the next Data Engineer Things meetup!
We’re thrilled to be hosted by Aladdin Engineering in Bank for an evening of practical, hands-on data engineering insights.
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers already, with one slot still open — if you or someone you know is interested in sharing experiences around building data platforms, get in touch!
Timings:
18:00 - 18:30 - Drinks, Food and Networking
18:30 - 19:15 - Tim Mayhew: Aladdin Streams - how we modernised the Analytics Platform using real-time, event-driven scalable architecture in Financial Services
Top level explanation of Aladdin Streams and what it is designed to do
The use case in Analytics Platform Modernisation
The technologies used and how they all fit together to create the system
19:15 - 19:30 - Break
19:30 - 19:45 Talk 2: Hugo Lu: Closing the Loop on an AI powered by Real-Time Metadata.
Hugo will be talking about a possible new architecture that Data Engineers can use to build AIs that help that build pipelines, maintain pipelines, and perform menial but important tasks.
20:15 onwards - Drinks, Networking and Pub
Come and join us, meet other data folks talking about real challenges over good food and a few drinks. 🍻
Bios
Tim Mayhew leads data ingestion and reporting for the Analytics Platform Modernisation project at Aladdin, focused on replacing legacy overnight analytics with a real-time, event driven scalable architecture. He was also the original lead on the Aladdin Streams framework, a real-time calculation engine now central to the platform, now lead by Parisa Jalili Marandi. With over two decades at Aladdin, Tim has deep experience building systems that improve performance, reduce risk, and scale complex data pipelines.
Hugo Lu is the CEO@Orchestra, the metadata-driven, AI native AI workflow tool. Previously he built Data Teams at Codat and JUUL and also worked in finance. He enjoys data and food.
Can’t wait to see you there!
DET Team