Bio

Subash D’Souza works at the cross-section of open data, and education. He is the Founder of Data Con LA, the largest independent data conference in the SoCal region. He is also the founder of Data 4 Good, a public-private nonprofit think tank created to work with various organizations using data to tackle social problems working on issues ranging from homelessness to digital equity technology innovation, data and analytics, and public-private partnerships. He is currently the Director for Cloud Data Engineering at California State University, Office of the Chancellor where he reports to senior leadership providing guidance and feedback on using modern cloud tech and data skills to usher CSU into the digital age. He was previously the Head of Data Engineering at Headspace where he worked on solving data challenges. Prior to that he was the Director for Big Data & Ops at Warner Bros leveraging his skillsets to build best practices and scale data pipelines to handle focusing on entertainment. Subash was recognized by the City of LA in promoting and educating the public on the use of data. He currently serves as an AWS Education Champion. He was part of the teams that won first place at the hackathons at both Warner Bros and Toyota. He was also recognized as a Champion of Big Data by Cloudera. He served on California's Cradle to Career Technology & Security committee. He currently serves on the Linux Foundation as a Data Governance PMC member. He is recognized as senior members of IEEE and ACM.