In this episode (Part 1), Kapil Surlaker shares the challenges and experiences in successfully democratizing metadata management and data access APIs across LinkedIn. In the next part, we deep-dive on data quality.

Kapil is the VP of Engg, and Head of Data at LinkedIn. He has 20+ years of experience in data and infrastructure both at large companies such as Oracle as well as multiple startups. At LinkedIn, Kapil has been leading the next generation of Big Data Infrastructure, Platforms, Tools, and Applications to empower Data Scientists, AI engineers, App developers, to extract value from data. Kapil's team has been at the forefront of innovation driving multiple open source initiatives such as Apache Pinot, Gobblin, DataHub.