Data Engineering for Fraud Prevention - Angela Ramirez

We talked about:

• Angela's background


• Angela's role at Sam's Club


• The usefulness of knowing ML as a data engineer


• Angela's career path


• Transitioning from data analyst to data engineer/system designer


• Best practices for system design and data engineering


• Working with document databases


• Working with network-based databases


• Detecting fraud with a network-based database


• Selecting the database type to work with


• Neo4j vs Postgres


• The importance of having software engineering knowledge in data engineering


• Data quality check tooling


• The greatest challenges in …

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