Josh is obsessed with building data applications. As a data engineering practitioner of almost twenty years he has created foundational tools and infrastructures for startups and fortune 100s alike. He is currently the cofounder and Chief Architect at Mode, where he's helping the team deliver a collaborative platform for analysts and data scientists. Prior to Mode he built and led the data engineering team at Yammer where he later helped transform Office 365 into a more data-driven business unit as part of the Microsoft's acquisition of the company.