
Hussein Awala
Sr. Data Engineer @Voodoo
Hussein is a Sr. Data Engineer in the Ads Network team at Voodoo, where he designs and develops scalable data solutions. With over 5 years of experience building lakehouse architectures, he has a passion for data processing and analytics. As a member of the Apache Airflow PMC and a contributor to various open-source projects, he brings both deep technical expertise and a community-driven spirit to his work.
Talk
2024
How to create a GDPR-compliant Iceberg Lakehouse
Before open table formats became popular, European tech companies had two options for implementing GDPR compliance on their data: Moving all data to the warehouse to delete some when necessary. Implementing a data retention policy in the data lake using the lifecycle to delete all data after a certain amount of time.
In this talk, I will introduce the Lakehouse architecture and explain how to design and implement an Iceberg Lakehouse for your data to reduce costs and increase throughput while maintaining GDPR compliance.