Capital One's Data Innovation Strategy - You Build, Your Data (YBYD)

Explore Capital One's multi-year tech transformation and cloud migration journey in this 32-minute conference talk. Learn about their approach to building enterprise data platforms for a modern data ecosystem, enabling 13,000+ technologists and associates to produce and consume data in a self-service manner. Discover the "you build, your data" (YBYD) strategy that empowers innovation at scale. Gain insights into best practices and considerations for building data platforms, including the three-layer stack: real-time publishing and streaming platform, cloud-based lake, and consumption layer. Understand how Capital One leverages open table formats like Delta Lake and Iceberg, and implements common metadata contracts for self-service data availability. Presented by Jim Lebonitte, Distinguished Engineer, and Kajal Wood, Sr. Director Software Engineering at Capital One, this talk offers valuable lessons for organizations looking to transform their data ecosystems.