Barak Yagour is a Director of Engineering at Meta, responsible for Data Infrastructure. Over the last seven years at Meta, Barak has built a world-class team that’s now responsible for some of the largest data systems on the planet. The Data Infra teams are focused on evolving and scaling our Analytics, Monitoring and Observability, ML/AI Infrastructure, as well as our Responsibility and Privacy Infra efforts. These systems and tools allow everyone at Meta to make better data-driven decisions and do this faster. Dealing with an extremely broad range of problems, touching all SW stack levels and a wide range of systems and platforms. Prior to joining Meta, Barak held leadership roles in small startups and in major corporations, tackling complex problems in the space of Cyber, Messaging, Networking, Virtualization and Machine Learning.