Empowering Data-Driven Decision-Making at Checkatrade: From Legacy Infrastructure to a Modern Lakehouse
In this webinar, George Karapalidis, Director of Data at Checkatrade, shares the company’s journey modernising its data platform to unlock real-time insights, democratise data access, and streamline operations.
Learn how Checkatrade transitioned from a legacy on-premise system to a modern lakehouse architecture using Starburst Galaxy—reducing query times by 60%, enabling self-service analytics for over a third of its workforce, and processing over 200 TB of data daily.
In this webinar, you’ll hear how the data team:
- Unified over 100 disparate data sources across AWS and Google Cloud
- Empowered 35% of employees with self-service analytics through Power BI and dbt
- Reduced pipeline execution from 6 hours to 1.5 hours, enabling real-time reporting
- Built a collaborative data culture that supports innovation and growth
Whether you’re a Data Leader exploring ways to scale analytics or a Data Practitioner looking for insights on simplifying architecture while improving performance, this session will offer practical takeaways and inspiration.


Speakers
George Karapalidis
Director of Data at Checkatrade
Korbi Zollner
Senior Manager Field Engineering at Starburst
