Companies that gather data about their users have an ethical obligation and legal responsibility to protect the personally identifiable information in their dataset. Ideally, developers working on a software application wouldn’t need access to production data. Yet without high-quality example data, many technology groups stumble on avoidable problems. Organizations need a solution to protect privacy while simultaneously preserving aspects of the data which are important. Tonic is automating data synthesis to advance data privacy. Their solution gives your production-like data for development and analytical purposes without compromising on data quality or privacy. In this episode, I interview Tonic’s CEO Ian Coe, and Head of Engineering Adam Kamor. Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices