Question 1

CDC During Migration - explain approaches for real-time Change Data Capture

Accepted Answer

CDC captures inserts, updates, and deletes from a source and applies them to a target in near real-time, enabling minimal-downtime migrations. **Approaches**: Log-based CDC (Debezium, AWS DMS)—reads WAL/redo logs; lowest latency, no schema change. Trigger-based—triggers on source; adds load and schema coupling. Timestamp/version columns—incremental only; misses deletes and out-of-order updates. Dual-write with reconciliation—applications write to both; eventual consistency and complexity....

Question 2

What's the biggest technical challenge Moonfare faces in handling data?

Accepted Answer

Situation: Company-specific (fintech). Task: Domain-aware analysis. Action: Compliance (GDPR, financial regs), real-time + batch, lineage/audit, integration complexity, scale. Approach: governance, CDC+batch, lineage (OpenLineage), scalable lakehouse. Security/compliance paramount....

Question 3

How do you handle data cleanup and lifecycle management in S3?

Accepted Answer

Architectural approach: Lifecycle rules—transition (30d→IA, 90d→Glacier) and expiration (365d→delete). Per prefix. Intelligent-Tiering for unknown patterns. Best practice: Partition by date; expiration for temp; transition before delete; noncurrentVersion for old versions.

Question 4

Which AWS services do you use for data ingestion and processing?

Accepted Answer

**Ingestion**: Kinesis (streaming), DMS (DB migration/CDC), Transfer Family (SFTP), API Gateway + Lambda (REST), EventBridge (events). **Processing**: Glue (managed Spark, ETL), EMR (complex Spark, ML), Lambda (lightweight). **Storage**: S3. **Analytics**: Athena (ad-hoc SQL), Redshift (warehouse). **Orchestration**: Step Functions, EventBridge. **Decision**: By latency (real-time vs batch) and volume. Real-time: Kinesis→Lambda→S3. Batch: Glue/EMR from S3....

Question 5

How can technology improve private equity investments?

Accepted Answer

**Applications**: (1) Data aggregation—unified portfolio view; (2) Performance analytics—KPIs, benchmarks; (3) Deal sourcing—ML targets, NLP for documents; (4) Due diligence—extract financials, contracts; (5) Monitoring—dashboards, alerts. Example: pipeline ingesting portfolio financials, normalizing schema, investor reports....

Question 6

How do you manage competing priorities in an Agile environment?

Accepted Answer

**Approach**: (1) Backlog ordering—PO prioritizes; team on top; (2) Negotiate—discuss when all 'urgent'; (3) WIP limits; (4) Escalate for clarity; (5) Transparency—capacity, commitments visible. Single backlog owner; say no to protect focus; 'now, next, later' for clarity.

Question 7

What attracts you to working at Moonfare?

Accepted Answer

Company-specific. Moonfare = digital PE platform. 'Mission to democratize PE; technical challenge of financial data—sensitive data, real-time, compliance. Fintech + data engineering. [Culture/stage] and [contribution].' Research tech blog, product, values.

Question 8

Which metrics are critical to monitor?

Accepted Answer

**Pipeline:** Throughput, latency, failure rate, SLA attainment. **Infra:** CPU/memory, shuffle spill, GC. **Data quality:** Null rates, schema drift, freshness. **Cost:** Compute hours, storage. **Business:** Records processed, downstream impact. **Tools:** Grafana, Datadog; PagerDuty. **Why:** SLOs + alerts on breach. Business metrics for prioritization....

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