With a career spanning more than 10 years, David Thelan has experienced the rise and fall of numerous trends and technologies. The tools changed from MapReduce to GenAI, but the question remains the same: how to deliver business value?
His work as Director of Data Science at SparkBeyond has seen him successfully deliver projects across almost every continent on Earth, across almost every domain a data scientist is likely to encounter. This experience has taught him many things, chief amongst them is that building a model is often the easiest part of a project!