Written interview in early February, 2022. Learn more about Smruti on linkedin, twitter and on LeadDev. Tell us a little about your current role: where do you work, your title and generally the sort of work you and your team do. I currently lead the Data Platform group at Stripe – we operate the centralized data lake, and the bigdata, async & stream processing infrastructure for Stripe’s mission-critical business, while ensuring security, reliability and efficiency.