Stuart Caborn
Distinguished Engineer at loveholidays
Newbury, United Kingdom
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Stuart has been a technologist for 30 years, spanning roles in security, agile consulting, finance, and now travel at loveholidays. He is fascinated by how company structures, ways of working, and system designs shape each other. As a Distinguished Engineer at loveholidays, Stuart leads the Boost team, helping engineering teams navigate complex technical and organisational hurdles. Working at the coalface, Stuart focuses on finding better ways for humans, technology, and AI to work effectively together.
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Insights for All: Democratise your Data
At loveholidays, anyone in the organisation can ask a question of our data, get an answer, and share their results in real time.
We'll follow our data evolution from data lake, to data products, and then to AI-powered answers. We will explore what a data product is, why it's foundational and how we exploited well-curated data products using MCP to add an AI-assisted chat layer for ad-hoc queries alongside our existing dashboards for curated reporting.
As part of our journey we open-sourced tools, grew a village of contributors across the business, and learned that how you package a tool matters as much as what it does. Alongside the tech we'll share what we learned about measuring and driving adoption across engineers, analysts, and the wider business.
You'll learn patterns built on open source software that you can apply to democratise your own data for everyone in your organisation.
The Hidden Evolution of Services
How do you know when a service needs to evolve? While we often focus on REST APIs and runtime behavior, the true scope of a service could extend beyond these interfaces.
Through the journey of a critical booking service at loveholidays, Stuart will explore how 12 years of rapid organisational growth created unexpected challenges in both our runtime and data architectures.
Gain practical insights about recognising when your service boundaries no longer serve your teams, how 'hidden' APIs like data dependencies can impact your ability to evolve, and how loveholidays approached restructuring for future scalability while keeping their systems running smoothly. This real-world case study demonstrates how to systematically untangle and evolve critical services as your organisation grows.
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