{"data":{"id":"ebay","number":3,"name":"eBay","title":"Head of design for eBay’s technology team","years":"2011","period":"From 2011","place":"Austin, Texas (traveling to San Jose, California)","part":"Left arm","oneLiner":"Head of design for eBay’s entire internal technology division, when BI and big data were new.","summary":"In 2011 Kyle Ledbetter joined eBay as head of design for its entire internal technology division, pioneering BI and big data. He was based in Austin, traveled to San Jose, and designed DataHub, which opened up 52 petabytes of data.","roles":[{"title":"Head of design, internal technology division","organization":"eBay"}],"organizations":[{"name":"eBay","fullName":null,"url":"https://www.ebay.com/"}],"links":{"api":"https://kyleledbetter.com/api/v1/chapters/ebay","html":"https://kyleledbetter.com/agent#ebay","markdown":"https://kyleledbetter.com/story/ebay.md","home":"https://kyleledbetter.com/#chapter-arm_left"},"panel":"In 2011 I joined eBay, based in Austin and traveling to San Jose, when BI and big data were new. I designed DataHub, an analytics hub that opened up 52 petabytes of data to analysts, data scientists and business users.","text":"In 2011 I joined eBay as head of design for its entire internal technology division. I was based in Austin and traveled to San Jose, and we were pioneering business intelligence (BI) and big data while both were still new.\n\nMy Joomla work is what brought me to eBay, which ran a large internal Joomla site for its data analytics. There I designed the UI platform for eBay’s technology organization, plus DataHub, an analytics community and reporting hub for executives.\n\nThe brief was to design an intersection of dashboards, reports, forums, access control, blogs and news for the whole technology organization, on top of petabytes of data. DataHub plugged into Teradata, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Oracle and SQL. It opened up 52 petabytes of data, from eBay.com user behavior to online transactions, so analysts, data scientists and business users could find their own answers.\n\nThe work got press from [InfoWorld](https://www.infoworld.com/article/2284469/big-data-visualization-a-big-deal-for-ebay.html), [CRN](https://web.archive.org/web/20210118110534/https://www.crn.com.au/news/inside-ebays-massive-data-warehouse-342800) and Ventana Research’s [David Menninger](https://davidmenningervr.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/the-consumerization-of-collaborative-bi-has-arrived/), and it laid a foundation for features that were still in development ten years later.\n\nAfter eBay I worked at Sears Holdings in 2013, on a small team tasked with saving Sears with analytics and data. In 2014, at MicroStrategy, I helped redesign the world’s most popular BI product with natural language and search as the interface.","highlights":["Head of design for eBay’s entire internal technology division, from 2011","Designed DataHub, an analytics community and reporting hub","Opened up 52 petabytes of data for analysts, data scientists and business users","Integrated Teradata, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Oracle and SQL","Covered by InfoWorld, CRN and Ventana Research"],"stats":[{"value":"52 PB","label":"of data opened up through DataHub"}],"quote":null,"related":{"timeline":[{"id":"ebay","title":"Head of design at eBay","url":"https://kyleledbetter.com/agent#timeline-ebay"}],"talks":[],"writing":[],"press":[{"id":"infoworld-ebay-big-data-visualization","title":"Big data visualization: A big deal for eBay","url":"https://kyleledbetter.com/agent#press-infoworld-ebay-big-data-visualization"},{"id":"menninger-collaborative-bi","title":"The Consumerization of Collaborative BI Has Arrived","url":"https://kyleledbetter.com/agent#press-menninger-collaborative-bi"},{"id":"crn-inside-ebays-data-warehouse","title":"Inside eBay’s massive data warehouse","url":"https://kyleledbetter.com/agent#press-crn-inside-ebays-data-warehouse"}],"projects":[],"practices":[]}},"meta":{"updated":"2026-10-11","apiVersion":"1.0.0","docs":"https://kyleledbetter.com/developers"}}