Bio
Tobias Macey is a dedicated engineer with experience spanning many years and even more domains. He currently manages and leads the Technical Operations team at MIT Open Learning where he designs and builds cloud infrastructure to power online access to education for the global MIT community.
He also owns and operates Boundless Notions, LLC where he offers design, review, and implementation advice on data infrastructure and cloud automation.
In addition, he hosts the Data Engineering Podcast and Podcast.__init__ where he uncovers the details behind the tools, topics, and people that comprise the data engineering and Python communities respectively.
My Talks
DevOps For Data Teams
The tools, processes, and communication styles of DevOps have improved the ability of software teams to create and deliver meaningful work over the past decade. In the meantime data teams have begu...
Infrastructure As Data
Programmable infrastructure lets us drive our deployments with code, but that ignores the inherent statefulness of our environments. In addition to software principles, we should be focusing on the...
Open Sourcing Your Infrastructure
Open source is a ubiquitous term that is being applied to all kinds of things these days, so what about your infrastructure? Releasing your configuration management to the public can be useful and ...
The Evolution of Space and Time: A Memoir of Software Maintenance
When designing a piece of code there are countless decisions and tradeoffs to be made. Sometimes that is the choice between being explicit to the point of redundancy, or using clever tricks to keep...