Data Contracts

Chad Sanderson is a well-known writer and speaker on Data Contracts, passionate about data quality and improving the relationship between data producers and consumers. A former head of data at Convoy, a LinkedIn writer, and a published author, Chad created the first implementation of data contracts at scale at Convoy and the first engineering guide to deploying contracts in streaming, batch, and oriented environments. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and operates the Data Quality Camp Slack group and the Data Products newsletter, both focused on data contracts and their technical implementation.

Mark Freeman is a community health advocate turned data engineer interested in the intersection of social impact, business, and technology. His life’s mission is to improve well-being through data. Mark received his M.S. from the Stanford School of Medicine and is certified in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also worked within numerous startups where he has put machine learning models into production, integrated data analytics into products, and led migrations to improve data infrastructure.