Data Warehousing (DW)

Welcome! This is a living document intended to capture information about how the Data Warehousing Team operates. This includes team culture as well as details about communication channels, and workflows.

About

Role

Specific mission or purpose statement for the team (e.g., "To design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data repositories that supports all WashU's healthcare data needs.")

What we do

Detailed explanation of the team's core responsibilities and deliverables. Use bullet points or short paragraphs.

  • Managing data sources
  • Curating the OMOP schema
  • Developing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.

Team Members & Roles

Name Role
Snehil Gupta Manager
Warren Thomas DBA
Suhas Khot Software Developer

Norms & Culture (i.e. How We Work)

Technologies & Tools

Processes & Methodologies

  • Best Practices, Guides, & Tutorials

External Engagements / Collaborations & Communications

How External Teams Engage with Us: Explain the process for other departments to submit requests, report issues, or collaborate with this specific team. (e.g., "Submit a DevOps request to X project," "Reach out via Teams channel Y.")

Getting Started (Onboarding)

Things that are specific to DW/RDC group.

  • historical background
  • special provisioning setups and/or tutorials
  • common initial questions
  • engagements and participations
    • useful chats to be a part of

Important Meetings, Chats & Notes

Name Frequency Time Link Notes
Datalake Infrastructure and Development Meeting Weekly Wednesday 3-345pm Microsoft Teams Agenda and Records Word Document (on Box)
DW Review/Demo - Data Warehousing Meeting Bi-Weekly Tuesday 1-2pm Zoom 1-1:30pm MDClone review / 1:30-2 DW Team Review
DW Retrospective Bi-Weekly Tuesday 2-230pm Zoom ??

Key Projects & Initiatives


Updated on August 7, 2025