How FanDuel Builds a Secure Real-Time Data Platform with Snowplow & AWS

How does FanDuel structure its modern data platform? In this clip, Tony Cui (Senior Data Engineering Manager at FanDuel) gives a high-level overview of FanDuel’s current data architecture, including:

🔹 Snowplow deployed directly in FanDuel’s AWS account for secure behavioral data capture

🔹 AWS services including Kinesis, EC2, and VPC networking to ensure compliance and scalability

🔹 A Kafka backbone (Adrenaline) powering FanDuel’s real-time systems

🔹 Databricks on AWS as the warehouse and processing layer, leveraging Apache Spark

🔹 A bronze–silver–gold (medallion) architecture (Landing, Foundation, Core, Dispatch) for structured data flows

🔹 How behavioral data integrates with operational and backend datasets to support analysts, data scientists, and product teams

This clip shows how FanDuel, Snowplow, and AWS combine to deliver a secure, real-time, warehouse-first architecture for gaming analytics at scale.

👉 Watch the full 30-minute fireside chat with FanDuel, Snowplow, and AWS here: https://snowplow.io/events/real-time-wins-how-fanduel-transforms-player-experience-with-aws-and-snowplow

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