Torq Pagdin is the Director of Data Engineering at Hotels.com, part of Expedia Group, Inc. and has more than 25 years of experience working in the data engineering field. Hotels.com is a truly data driven company and the HDE team have a mission to maximise the power of data for the analysts and data science community. Torq started his career with IBM as a DB2 developer before moving into Programme Management and Solution Architecture. Prior to Hotels.com, Torq worked for SKY, leading their production support for Business Intelligence. He joined Hotels.com in June 2016 as a manager in HDE and has been since been instrumental in supporting the growing HDE team and has championed data quality and cloud migration initiatives.