Welcome to Data Products

Welcome to Data Products - a newsletter on my thoughts around Data Product Development, Next Generation Data Modeling, Knowledge Layers, Semantic Layers, Data Mesh and more (any more buzzwords or is that enough?)

I publish 1x a week on some of my favorite topics. If you’re interested in thoughtful philosophy around data, please subscribe (free forever) and keep in touch.

About me

My name is Chad Sanderson. Currently, I lead the Data Platform team at Convoy, a Digital Freight Unicorn. The data we work with is incredibly complex with an inordinate amount of entities, real-world events, non-linear workflows, and more. For the last ~3 years I have been exclusively focused on rebuilding a framework of modeling for the modern data stack that will allow our data consumers to define the data they need in advance, seamlessly create data products, and construct semantic-based metrics, attributes, and dimensions.

In terms of what you can expect from this newsletter -

• 1x per week longform content on my philosophical musings around data, architecture, governance, semantics, and data APIs

• An open line to me to talk data! My calendly is available on request to practitioners and data operators (vendors interested in collaboration, please reach out via LinkedIn)

• Deep insights into the work we are currently doing at Convoy, including architecture designs, UX, and videos

A fun architecture!

I’m looking forward to hearing from other forward-thinking data folks in the space (Like you?). Feedback always welcome. Talk soon

Chad