Scale By The Bay 2020: Lei Gao, Goku Flow: A Self-Service Data Pipeline Builder

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference To provide a high customer satisfaction, Workday leverages the operational data (both structured and unstructured data) to optimize services. At Workday, a centralized big data platform is used for descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics for all personas. This talk will introduce the challenges that the platform needs to address. Afterwards, we will present the tools used for various analysis tasks. Moreover, an in-house data pipeline platform will be presented, which is used for automation. Lei Gao Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Workday Lei Gao a senior machine learning engineer at Workday, who is leading a team to build a data science analytics platform.