General
Operations Management for Disney's Data Foundation Platform
Industry: General

Executive Summary
Operationalizing Industrial IoT with KCF Technologies SMARTDiagnostics platform for mission-critical machine health monitoring.
Challenge
Difficulty unifying diverse data feeds across digital platforms. Legacy metadata systems struggled to scale during major content releases. Manual EC2 scaling caused performance bottlenecks. Fragmented data pipelines increased complexity and configuration errors.
Strategy
Monitored data pipelines and APIs 24/7 using CloudWatch and Canary Synthetics. Managed infrastructure updates through Terraform and Code Pipeline. Ensured security and compliance using Secrets Manager and AWS Config. Automated quality checks to maintain reliability during traffic spikes.
Solution Overview
Built a serverless Data Foundation Platform using Node.js, AWS AppSync, and Lambda. Unified historical and real-time data through Spark-based ingestion pipelines. Enabled global, low-latency access using DynamoDB Global Tables. Integrated Snowflake data marts for analytics and reporting.






