Big data is the world's newest and most surprising frontier. Its challenges mean we must constantly iterate and implement new best practices. Its opportunities mean we must constantly create new tools and platforms to empower insights. Its explosive growth (4,000 years and counting!) means we constantly need to create, discover, and collaborate on new solutions.Individually, I help people make their own journeys. I develop tools to manage and automate large data flows. I develop platforms to empower users to access data sources served by these flows. I develop processes to productionalize data pipelines, data architectures, data service layers, data models, APIs, ontologies, databases, data lakes, and data warehouses so that our users can rely on them with confidence. My users are my customers. They deserve the highest standard of care. It's a pleasure to deliver it to them.As a teammate, I help my team develop new skills, work with other teams to make unified products that align with the company's vision, grow our team's standard of practice, advance our careers, and hone the cutting edge of data engineering and data science. My teammates are also my customers. It's a pleasure to help them succeed in delighting their own customers.As a colleague, I help my company achieve its vision of cross-disciplinary digital transformation and human-centered design. I help drive our company's mission by providing transformative data science and engineering in service of shared human values. I cooperate with other teams to demonstrate data's value to products that transform our customers' business and make the world a better place. My company is also my customer. It deserves my best efforts to achieve its vision. It's a pleasure to support that.Data is our civilization's oldest legacy. Big data is our newest frontier. It's one we make ourselves, each and every day. Working with data is a wonderful adventure. I am honored to be part of it.