Case Study: KIPP builds a resilient data platform with Dagster Labs

How KIPP’s solo data engineer radically improved KIPP’s ability to leverage data across the organization

KIPP, a network of public charter schools, faced significant challenges with a fragmented and brittle data infrastructure that hampered their ability to leverage data across the organization. As the sole data engineer, Charlie Bini needed a solution to unify their disparate tools, improve data reliability, and support growth. They selected the Dagster platform to centralize orchestration and bring much-needed visibility and control to their data processes.

By implementing Dagster as its core orchestration and cataloging solution, KIPP built a resilient and scalable data platform. The results were transformative: development time for new data integrations dropped from weeks to just a couple of days, and data quality issues were dramatically reduced, leading to a 30% year-over-year decrease in related support tickets. Dagster empowered the entire data team with better observability, faster alerting, and improved collaboration, fundamentally changing how they work.

KIPP

Charlie Bini

Data Engineer