Ryan
Freitas

Ryan is the Principal Architect for the Data Platform team at Scribd, with 10+ years across data engineering and software development and 6+ years on Databricks. He specializes in data modeling, orchestration, governance, and infrastructure engineering, and sets the technical direction for the platforms that data engineers, analysts, and AI applications run on top of. He writes and speaks on policy-as-code, medallion architecture, and the operational side of running a modern data platform at scale.