James Broome

James has spent nearly 20 years delivering high quality software solutions addressing global business problems, with teams and clients across 3 continents. As Director of Engineering at endjin, he provides technology strategy, data insights and engineering support to organizations of all sizes - from disruptive B2C start-ups, to global financial institutions - to enable them to deliver on the vision of a modern, data-driven, cloud-first organization.

James Broome's Sessions

Do those numbers look right? How to ensure quality, and avoid inaccuracies in your data insights.SQLBits 2024

The need to validate business rules and security boundaries within a data solution is important, as well as the need for ensuring that quality doesn't regress over time as it evolves. Data insights are useless or even dangerous if they can't be trusted, and in this session, James will explain how and why they should treated just like any other software project with respect to testing - by building automated quality gates into the end to end development process. During the session, he'll walk through some practical examples and proven techniques around testing data solutions - including Power BI reports, Synapse Pipelines and interactive Spark notebooks.

Predictive Maintenance with Azure SynapseSQLBits 2020

This session provides an end-to-end walk through of how to use Azure Synapse for cloud-hosted advanced analytics, based around a real-world predictive maintenance use case.