Troy James Palanca

Leads the Data Platform Team and people manages 10 data engineers, with a focus on building a privacy-centered data stack that powers analytical and machine learning use cases within the company. * Hiring, Leadership, Talent Development - Grew the team from 2 members to a distributed team of 10 (2 in Hong Kong, 5 in Singapore, and 3 in London), through recruiter engagement, talent acquisition partnering, and leading the whole hiring process. Led the team through an acquisition experience through engagement in the organizational leadership team. Halted attrition in the existing team, evidenced by increase in ENPS. Set up the team as a Data Platform with significant mandate and latitude to impact data infrastructure decisions. * Data Platform Development. Taking an existing data platform processing terabytes of data daily through streaming and batch pipelines, ensuring SLA compliance, and making improvements to move to the next generation data platform. Designed architecture, empowered teams to build and execute in partnership with the business. Used individual capacity to create technical examples for the teams to take and use for prototyping and development.

I help fast-growing organizations in Asia-Pacific use data for decisions and deploy those decisions at scale, whether strategic, operational, or in-product. My approach is to identify the business problems that matter and address those issues using the effectiveness of data. I don’t consider myself just a data person, but a problem solver with data and technology as a core capability.