Funding Circle

Funding Circle is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that allows the public to lend money directly to small and medium-sized businesses. Through this exchange businesses access lower costs of financing than they would get at a bank and the public are able to become lenders and in doing so make a return on their capital.

As of September 2019, Funding Circle has facilitated over £8 billion in loans to small and medium-sized firms.The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Team name:

Pink Elephant

Data department size:

20-100 people

Industry:

FinTech

Team practises:

• Data Ops
• Data self-service
• Scrum
• Agile

Sharing content :

• Getting to know our Engineers at Funding Circle: Q&A with Lin Han
  team
  2020-11-27
• A Tale of spark JSON data source
  tech1
  2020-11-06

Data source:

• SalesForces API
• Experian entreprise data

Recent projects:

• Sherlock

  Internal building tools to help DS, DA to quickly config and deploy the Airflow DAGs.

  Apache Airflow
  2020
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• soqool

  Internal building tools to help DS, DA to quickly producitonise their SQL scripts to data transformation jobs. (by aws Athena CTAS)

  AWS Athena
  2020
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