Analytics for a SaaS startup: first year with Snowflake

Date and time:
22 March, 12:00 PM PST via Zoom

Summary:
ManyChat is a rapidly growing SaaS startup, which reached the size, requiring high-end analytical capabilities. Starting from December 2019, ManyChat selected a cloud-based analytical database and created a Data Platform around it. The given year was full of issues, solutions, and lessons learned. I want to tell a story, how we've used Snowflake, which issues we've faced, and how we've solved them.

Speaker:
Nikolay is a Chief Data Architect of ManyChat (SaaS startup), responsible for the implementation and growth of its Data Platform (AWS+Redis+Snowflake+Tableau). Previously, from 2013 till 2019 he headed the Data Platform of Avito, Craigslist of Russia, which grew to a multi-billion dollar company from a small startup. In Avito he was responsible for analytical databases (Vertica, ClickHouse), OLTP engines (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), and data buses (Kafka) for analytics and micro-services integration.
In parallel with those jobs, Nikolay is a researcher of Higher School Economics in Moscow, Russia, having few international publications about data warehousing (Anchor Modeling) and aspects of big data processing.