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WELCOME TO MY BLOG

My name is Sam Redai. I’m a data fanatic and with this blog I hope to capture the interesting highlights of the data revolutions of our time.
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For decades, traditionally non-tech/low-tech companies have started to realize the competitive edge to be gained from investing in technology. We’ve seen an explosion of various “must-have” technical capabilities: real-time customer insights, predictive modeling, search engine optimization, personalization AI, just to name a few. The result of this is that the demand for engineers has also exploded and it would be a challenge to find an organization, in any industry, that does not have open positions for engineering roles.

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Over the past few months, I’ve been asked about this enough times that I eventually found it a fitting topic for the first post for this blog. Let me start by saying that I loved working at Netflix! Nothing in life is perfect, but my time working for Netflix was a period of immense professional and personal growth. It felt like the first opportunity in my career where I could test the limits of my technical skill set. The culture of personal responsibility taught me how to own my failures and how to understand my successes. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from my colleagues and many of my professional relationships have extended into incredible friendships. Much of this fuels the question many people ask me: “Why did you leave Netflix to join Tabular, a brand new company?”