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Colleen Tartow, Ph.D.

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Senior Director, Enterprise Data Engineering at Capital One
📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Colleen Tartow is a data and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience, currently serving as a Senior Director at Capital One. A Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, she specializes in scaling global data engineering and analytics teams and developing complex SaaS and enterprise data systems.

Outside of her corporate role, she is an author, speaker, and instructor, with a focus on data leadership and career coaching. She is a strong DEI advocate and actively participates in events like the Women in Tech conference. Colleen is also a parent, sharing insights from her family life.

Her eight-year-old child once asked her whether the correct pronunciation is “day-tah” or “dah-tah.”

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Experience
27 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Enterprise Data Engineering
Job Level
Senior
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Modern Data Platforms
She is actively building a cutting-edge data platform at Capital One using Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Flink, and AWS, and is hiring distinguished data engineers for the team.
Women in Tech
A vocal DEI advocate, she recently participated in Capital One's 2026 Women in Tech conference, where she conducted the keynote fireside chat with Ellen K. Pao.
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Career

Work history

3-2025
Senior Director, Enterprise Data Engineering
Capital One
1-2025
Owner, CEO
Data New England
9-2024
Instructor and Author
O'Reilly
9-2023 - 3-2025
Field CTO, Head of Strategy
VAST Data
8-2021 - 9-2023
Head of Enterprise Engineering
Starburst Data
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Education
1999 - 2005
Ph.D.
UC Santa Barbara
1995 - 1999
B.A.
Colby College
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