Will Jenden

Will Jenden is a data scientist at Boeing who has been working there for the last 6 years.1 He specializes in building data products and decision support tools for commercial aviation.1

Jenden's career path is interesting:

1. He began in the elevator industry
2. Discovered a passion for optimizing maintenance and repair routes
3. Pursued a master's degree in operations research
4. Transitioned into analytics and data science

At Boeing, Jenden is involved in projects utilizing streaming data to enhance flight operations. He works on Jeppesen Aero Insights, a system that monitors up to 200,000 aviation flights daily across 4000+ airports worldwide.2 This system employs Apache Spark structured streaming and detects various flight events such as pushback, taxi, take-off, and landing.2

Jenden is also a speaker at the Data + AI Summit 2024, where he will present on "How Boeing Uses Streaming Data to Enhance the Flight Deck and OCC".12 His work involves using technologies like Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and MLflow to create data products and make online predictions for pilots.2