After an incredible 13 year career, Dan Delorey left Google to become the VP of Data at SoFi. It’s a huge switch, and — fortunately for us — Dan shared his story with the Data Engineering Podcast. Here I want to share my notes, starting with Dan as a Google Software Engineer who became an Engineering Director for BigQuery, and then moved into a VP role at a regulated financial company. — This is a fascinating conversation, as it moves from a deep focus on query execution and data storage — and then moves into business problems with data at SoFi (like “finding data, making sure data is reliable, monitoring SLAs about data delivery, answering business user questions”).