Ep 2: Renu Tewari – Former Sr Director of Data Infrastructure, Linkedin

Renu Tewari, former LinkedIn data platform leader, shares about her experience scaling the platform from 1 trillion to 35 trillion messages per day, and how Agentic AI is now reshaping the future of data engineering – and every infrastructure assumption we have.

Renu and Roy explore how hyperscaling teams address increasing platform bottlenecks, constant failures, and ongoing need for deep root-cause analysis; the explosion of open formats and Lakehouse architecture; and how active metadata is the foundation for AI agents to make autonomous in-flight decisions.

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