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Resident Advisor operates a full-stack music media and events business—news, club listings, ticketing, and live events—anchored by a 6M+ monthly user base across the electronic and dance music communities. The tech stack (Meltano, dbt, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes) reflects a data-intensive, infrastructure-heavy operation. Current hiring is heavily weighted toward data and marketing roles, and active projects reveal a company scaling toward AI: building a data warehouse for BI/ML, implementing a dbt semantic layer for consistent metrics, and addressing AI compatibility gaps—all while wrestling with legacy challenges around local listing accuracy and security controls.
Tech Stack 20 technologies
Core Stackdbt PostgreSQL AWS Node.js .NET SQL Server Elasticsearch Redis Kafka Kubernetes Terraform Datadog GraphQL Meltano GCP Azure Jinja SQL Git AWS EKS
What Resident Advisor Is Building
◆Challenges
- Maintaining accurate local listings
- Missing security governance controls
- Unstress-tested data platform
- Scaling high-traffic infrastructure
- Fraudulent transaction detection
- Ai compatibility gap
- City database upkeep
- Incomplete warehouse design
- Lack of warehouse design controls
- Process improvements and tooling adoption
▲Active Projects
- Design and scale data warehouse for bi and ai
- Build dbt semantic layer for consistent metrics
- Building shared auth systems
- Developing graphql gateways
- Internal tooling
- Improve local listings accuracy
- Process improvements and tooling adoption
- Ticketing partnership outreach
- Implement slim ci and dev-to-prod workflows
- Implement gdpr controls and data masking
Hiring Activity
15 roles · 15 in 30d
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