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Brandon DeShon

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Director, Data Scientist Mastercard

Brandon DeShon is a Director of Data Science, where he leads the fraud data engineering team. With four years of experience as a data scientist in the healthcare sector, Brandon has built robust data engineering pipelines to support machine learning models. He later transitioned to Mastercard, focusing on building data engineering pipelines. His diverse background in manufacturing and engineering enables him to continuously improve processes and bring unique perspectives to pipeline development. Outside of his professional life, Brandon is an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiujitsu

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Scaling Data Engineering Pipelines: Preparing Credit Card Transactions Data for Machine Learning

We discuss two real-world use cases in big data engineering, focusing on constructing stable pipelines and managing storage at a petabyte scale. The first use case highlights the implementation of Delta Lake to optimize data pipelines, resulting in an 80% reduction in query time and a 70% reduction in storage space. The second use case demonstrates the effectiveness of the Workflows ‘ForEach’ operator in executing compute-intensive pipelines across multiple clusters, significantly reducing processing time from months to days. This approach involves a reusable design pattern that isolates notebooks into units of work, enabling data scientists to independently test and develop.