Agreed. I've been "the backend engineer who works with the data engineers" for several years now and I've seen their general trend of re-inventing the wheel the

Agreed. I've been "the backend engineer who works with the data engineers" for several years now and I've seen their general trend of re-inventing the wheel the hard way a number of times. I've spent the majority of my career building better tools for data-related tasks, then winning over my users by showing off performance and productivity gains.