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Chapter № 013 Feb 27, 2024 •30:51

S9 E13: Bypassing the Monolithic ETL Importer: Implementing Open-Source Plugins, Multi-Sheet Relationships, and Real-Time Flatfile Workbooks with David Boskovic, Founder & CEO of Flatfile

Product Development Data Engineering Automation

David Boskovic grew up on a farm, in a small town in Canada. He grew up milking cows, not building technology. However, when he was 12 years old, …

Chapter Dec 13, 2023 •22:53

S9 Bonus: The DataOps Democratization Blueprint: Overthrowing Airflow Infrastructure Overhead and Scaling Serverless Data Orchestration with Blake Burch, Founder & CEO of Shipyard

Data Engineering DevOps Automation

Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music …

Chapter Nov 30, 2023 •23:31

S9 Bonus: Data-Centric AI Blueprint: Bypassing Privacy Walls and Scaling High-Fidelity Synthetic Data Pipelines with Fabiana Clemente, Co-Founder & CDO of YData

AI & Machine Learning Data Engineering LLM & Generative AI AI Integration

Fabiana Clemente was born and raised in Portugal, and lived in Lisbon until 2 years ago, when she moved to Seattle. She is passionate about the arts, having …

Chapter Nov 14, 2023 •25:01

S8 Favorite: The Language of Money: Re-Engineering Messy Transaction Data for the Era of AI Agents with Naré Vardanyan, Co-Founder & CEO of Ntropy

Data Engineering AI Agents Payments & Billing

Naré Vardanyan has a statistically unlikely story. She grew up in Armenia, without electricity during a war. She recalls that her parents gamified the experience, which allowed her …

Chapter Oct 19, 2023 •23:39

S8 Bonus: Building High-Performance Metadata Processing Engines and Drag-and-Drop Mapping with Ibrahim Surani & Jay Mishra of Astera

Product Development Data Engineering Automation

Ibrahim Surani grew up in Pakistan, dropped out of high school and in his words, stumbled around for a while. Eventually, he stumbled onto an IBM mainframe, taught …

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Chapter № 027 Oct 17, 2023 •21:00

S8 E27: Engineering Data Normalization Rails and Automated Candidate Sourcing to Kill Hiring Friction with Valeriy Bykanov, Co-Founder of Prodigy

Staffing & Resources Data Engineering Automation

Valeriy Bykanov studied computer science in the Ukraine, and eventually in 2009, decided to start his own software development agency. After doing this for some time, he wanted …

Chapter Oct 04, 2023 •35:16

S8 Bonus: Democratizing Human Capital Analytics and Engineering Multi-Tenant Transcript Ingestion with Kaj Pedersen, Co-Founder & CTO of AstrumU

Staffing & Resources Data Engineering

Kaj Pedersen was born in Zambia, Africa, and has travelled all throughout his life - through Africa, Europe, but has now landed in the United States. He has …

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Chapter № 025 Oct 03, 2023 •27:36

S8 E25: The Synthetic Data Blueprint: Bypassing Production Privacy Risks and Scaling Data Anonymization with Andrew Colombi, Co-Founder & CTO of Tonic.ai

AI & Machine Learning Data Engineering Compliance & Privacy

Andrew Colombi is a 38 year old tech guy from way back. At 12 years old, he wanted to play a computer game, but lacked the RAM to …

Chapter Sep 27, 2023 •30:30

S8 Bonus: The Real-Time Metadata Graph: Moving Beyond Passive Data Catalogs to Automated, Event-Driven Governance with Shirshanka Das, Co-Founder of DataHub & CEO of Acryl Data

Data Engineering Automation Observability & Monitoring

Shirshanka Das grew up on the eastern side of India, near Calcutta. He did well in school, and got into IIT, choosing Computer Science as his major. Post …

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Chapter № 023 Sep 19, 2023 •28:08

S8 E23: The Multimodal Data Blueprint: Structuring the Unseen 80% of Enterprise Visual Data Without Metadata Tagging with Will Gaviria, Co-Founder of Coactive AI

AI & Machine Learning Data Engineering AI Integration

Will Gaviria was born and raised in Columbia, immigrating to Florida at 11 years old. His family seta off in a single bedroom together, and worked hard for …

Chapter Sep 13, 2023 •32:55

S8 Bonus: The Data Asset Revolution: Moving Beyond Imperative Task Pipelines to Declarative Orchestration with Pete Hunt, Co-Founder of React & CEO of Dagster Labs

Data Engineering Automation

Pete Hunt grew up in NE Massachusetts, which he mentions was culturally New Hampshire. He wasn't into Hockey, but did a lot of swimming, in particular the 200m …

Chapter Jun 28, 2023 •25:21

S8 Bonus: From Facebook and Pinterest Data Infrastructure to Building the Canva for Data, with Shawn Cao of Columns

Product Development Data Engineering

Shawn Cao lives in Kirkland, just outside of Seattle. He immigrated to the US, and is married with 4 kids. He loves to hike and play soccer with …