Illuminations and Insights

Get to know Senior Data Engineer Angelica Lastra in the latest installment of our Day in the Life series. In the blog, Angelica describes her journey from designer to engineer, the joy she finds in fixing broken code or untangling data pipeline, and the wisdom she would impart on her younger self about her career.

Get to know Senior Software Engineer Bjorn Hauge in the latest installment of our Day in the Life blog series. In this blog, Bjorn discusses his career journey from working in internal business intelligence to making the pivot to software engineering, how he utilizes creativity while building applications, and his love for the outdoors.

Every summer, EA is fortunate enough to welcome a new cohort of interns to provide additional support and learn alongside our teams. Our organization benefits significantly from the diverse range of perspectives and insights that interns bring to EA, and we wanted to highlight the 2024 internship cohort and their accomplishments. In this blog, we invited them to share their thoughts about their internship experience at EA, what they've learned throughout their internship, and what advice they would give to future EA interns.

Get to know Cloud Engineer III Megan Nash in the latest blog for our day in the life series. In this blog, Megan discusses her role on the Cloud Engineering team, her involvement in the development of StartingBlocks, what drew her to want to work at EA, and more.

In this blog, Senior Data Engineer Tom Reitz discusses his role as an engineer at EA, what skills he utilizes in his position, his favorite projects he's worked at EA, what he does for fun outside of work, and more.

Enable Data Union (EDU) is our open framework for analytics and data warehousing based on the Ed-Fi data standard. We are excited to be publicly releasing code and documentation for EDU at www.enabledataunion.org. In this article, we explain our reasoning for choosing to release this code under the PolyForm Noncommercial License. This license allows for noncommercial use, including any use by education agencies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies.