From Startup to Scale: How Force Metrics Revolutionizes Police Data with Dremio
Join ForceMetrics’ engineering and product leaders as they share how they leveraged Dremio to build a scalable, secure data analytics platform for law enforcement agencies. Learn how this innovative startup manages terabytes of sensitive police data daily while maintaining a lean engineering team. The discussion covers their journey from processing basic CSV files to implementing a sophisticated Apache Iceberg-based architecture, resulting in faster data access, improved standardization across agencies, and significant cost savings through reduced engineering overhead.
Speakers
Brendan Cronin
Brendan Cronin is the Architect at ForceMetrics, a GovTech startup helping police departments more efficiently and effectively serve their communities through data. As lead engineer and a member of the founding team, he is responsible for both the Data Engineering team and Infrastructure team while also being heavily involved with Development.
Prior to ForceMetrics, Brendan’s diverse career has included experience in infrastructure, development, and information security work where he specialized in reverse engineering, “ethical” hacking, and distributed systems security automation. With as much a financial background as a technical one, Brendan is also an avid futures trader who once developed his own algorithmic trading platform.
Maeve Donovan
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Austin Hervias
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