Gable co-founders Chad (CEO), Adrian (CTO), Daniel (Founding Engineer), and James (CPO) have worked in data organizations for large companies, startups, research, and technology companies.
Data is incredibly important in driving all aspects of the business in all of these firms. Data drives decisions and everything from pricing to analytics and day-to-day operations.
Despite this, data scientists, analysts, and data engineers were constantly dealing with data quality, data governance, and change management issues stemming from issues with upstream source data.
With over 50 years of combined data platform experience, the group realized that the data industry’s approach to managing data lags 15 years behind software engineering.
Data contracts, integration testing, unit testing, diffs, and monitoring were sorely lacking outside the Data Warehouse. This caused data quality issues to cascade from upstream sources into the analytical environment, spurring an overflow of failed tests and randomly changing data - a problem that made data products fundamentally unscalable.
Shortly after, Gable was born to create a data culture of collaboration, accountability, quality, and governance.
