Building a Unified Data Platform at Pattern with William Graham

The orchestration of data workflows at scale requires both flexibility and security. At Pattern, decoupling scheduling from orchestration has reshaped how data teams manage large-scale pipelines.

In this episode, we are joined by William Graham, Senior Data Engineer at Pattern, who explains how his team leverages Apache Airflow alongside their open-source tool Heimdall to streamline scheduling, orchestration and access management.

Key Takeaways:

00:00 Introduction.

02:44 Structure of Pattern’s data teams across acquisition, engineering and platform.

04:27 How Airflow became the central scheduler for batch jobs.

08:57 Credential management challenges that led to decoupling scheduling and orchestration.

12:21 Heimdall simplifies multi-application access through a unified interface.

13:15 Standardized operators in Airflow using Heimdall integration.

17:13 Open-source contributions and early adoption of Heimdall within Pattern.

21:01 Community support for Airflow and satisfaction with scheduling flexibility.

Resources Mentioned:

William Graham

https://www.linkedin.com/in/willgraham2/

Pattern | LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pattern-hq/

Pattern | Website

https://pattern.com

Apache Airflow

https://airflow.apache.org

Heimdall on GitHub

https://github.com/patterninc/heimdall

Netflix Genie

https://netflix.github.io/genie/

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