Roche’s Data Transformation Journey (w/ Yannick Misteli)

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09/22/23 • 40 min

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Yannick Misteli is the head of engineering for the go-to-market domain at Roche, a $250 billion multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostics company.

Roche was an early supporter of dbt Cloud, and Yannick helped move his team of 120+ engineers to a modern data stack. He always finds a way to push the boundaries to make a large company founded in 1896 incredibly modern and innovative. We wanted to know more about the "how" of the work—the people, process, and technology.

Read more about Roche's data journey here: https://docs.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-squared

Yannick Misteli is the head of engineering for the go-to-market domain at Roche, a $250 billion multinational pharmaceutical and diagnostics company.

Read more about Roche's data journey here: https://docs.getdbt.com/blog/dbt-squared

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