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Before https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmstephenson/ worked at Starburst Data, he used to work at Square. There, he learned some hard lessons about working with legacy https://thenewstack.io/infrastructure-as-code-increase-security-scale-development/

Legacy IaC can bring a number of challenges into the lives of an engineering team.

Legacy IaC can bring significant maintenance needs, and it can be tough to recruit and retain engineers who have those skills.

At Starburst Data, he oversees the architecture for the company’s Galaxy product, a managed data lake analytics platform.