In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Colin Zima, co-founder and CEO of Omni, to talk about what it takes to reinvent business intelligence. Colin shares his journey from Looker’s early days to building Omni, the lessons learned along the way, and his philosophy of ruthless pragmatism when it comes to data modeling, product development, and AI. The conversation dives deep into the evolving BI landscape, the importance of semantics in AI, and ho...
Jun 09, 2025•41 min•Season 3Ep. 27
In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi talk with Nicho Mann, founder and CEO of Stratos Consulting, about the emotional and operational challenges facing data professionals today. Nicho introduces the idea of “data therapy” — a way to talk about the mounting pressure, backlog, and burnout that teams are experiencing as AI hype accelerates. With firsthand stories from the biotech and pharmaceutical space, he explains how many companies are overwhelmed, under-r...
May 08, 2025•33 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Fresh off the announcement of Coalesce acquiring AI-driven data catalog company CastorDoc , now Coalesce Catalog , co-founders Tristan Mayer and Xavier de Boisredon join the Data T podcast to talk about how it all came together, why his marks a major shift in the industry, how the Modern Data Stack is evolving, and what’s next. The conversation highlights both companies’ shared vision of making data governance simpler, more intuitive, and embedded early in the data lifecycle. The founders break ...
Apr 03, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 25
In this episode of The Data T , Joe Reis returns to discuss his journey since his last appearance on our podcast. We chat about the lasting impact of his book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering , and his latest focus on data modeling. Data modeling is the focus of Joe’s upcoming book, Practical Data Modeling , which he is writing publicly on his Substack. We also explore broader industry trends, including the hype around AI, the resurgence of data governance, and shifting perspectives on data mod...
Apr 01, 2025•46 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Welcome to the Data T! In our first podcast episode for 2025, hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi chat with Tejas Manohar, co-CEO and co-founder of Hightouch, about his predictions for the year ahead. The conversation covers the top trends in generative AI, customer engagement, and data infrastructure, with a deep dive into AI Decisioning, the latest innovation from Hightouch that uses continuous experimentation and reinforcement learning to optimize marketing strategies. Manohar provides...
Jan 24, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 23
In the final episode of Coffee with Coalesce for 2024, we travel to Europe to chat with David Richert, SAP Modernization Evangelist and Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake, and Edwin Commandeur, Principal Field Product Manager (SAP) at Fivetran, about the challenges and innovations in data management and migration, particularly in the context of SAP systems. Hosted by Damien Walker and Glen Dawson, the conversation explores the benefits of shifting from application-centric to data-centric appr...
Dec 13, 2024•40 min•Season 2Ep. 22
In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Hugo Lu, CEO and founder of Orchestra, joins hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share the company’s founding story, discuss the challenges of building and selling an orchestration platform in an already crowded data space, his predictions on the main trends in data for 2025, and more. Listen to the full episode to find out more about: Orchestra’s founding story Challenges in data orchestration The importance of data governance Enabling a succes...
Nov 18, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 21
In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Cube co-founders Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov discuss their journey with Cube, from starting out as a side project to a successful company that recently raised its Series B funding rou nd. The discussion touches on Cube’s founding story, innovating the semantic layer with a universal approach, and their data management strategy. Listen to the full episode for more on: Cube’s founding story: The company’s origins as an open-source project focused on em...
Oct 29, 2024•47 min•Season 2Ep. 20
In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Taylor Brown, COO and co-founder of Fivetran, shares the origin story of the company and how Fivetran has helped pioneer the Modern Data Stack. Taylor dives into the challenges of building Fivetran, the company’s mission to make data as accessible and reliable as electricity, and the impact of their innovations on the data industry. In this episode: The origin of Fivetran and its mission to simplify data ingestions The origin of the Modern Data Stack Data...
Oct 04, 2024•48 min•Season 2Ep. 19
We’re excited to welcome Una Galyeva, Data & AI Consultant with Honest Data and AI Consulting, to chat about data mesh. Topics covered in this episode include the reality of data mesh implementations vs the theoretical concepts, use cases where implementing data mesh makes sense, assembling the right team for a successful transition to a data mesh structure, and more. Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.
Aug 23, 2024•50 min•Season 2Ep. 18
In the latest episode of our data podcast, we welcome Rob Woollen, Co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to chat about the future of BI, the journey of developing Sigma, finding product market fit, and the company’s success. In this episode you'll hear Rob's take on: the future of spreadsheets and SQL addressing the largest bottlenecks in analytics use cases the impact of Gen AI and LLMs on BI challenges in AI interface design the potential of AI for productivity, and more....
Jul 16, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In this episode of the Coffee with Coalesce podcast, we chat with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001, about the secret to building highly performant data engineering teams. Hint: It’s not about finding super-talented, highly-skilled professionals that are 10x more productive than their peers. Rather, it’s about enabling developer velocity: creating an environment where every engineer can be highly productive, and enabling them with the tools and platforms that are pivotal to that pro...
May 28, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 16
In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, we chat with Joe Floyd, General Partner at Emergence Capital, and Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures. Venture capital plays a pivotal role in guiding new companies and technologies to market, and our guests have had a first-row seat to the fast and furious growth and innovation happening in the industry over the past decade. Ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of Snowflake. Just two years ago, LLMs were an obscure acronym known only to t...
May 03, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 15
We’re excited to welcome Kashish Gupta, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the number-one composable customer data platform (CDP) that is revolutionizing the way marketers activate their data. From semantic layers to taking advantage of cloud-native data warehouse architectures, tune in and bring your questions for our guest and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.
Mar 25, 2024•46 min•Season 2Ep. 14
We’re excited to welcome John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano to tackle the age-old topics of data management and data modeling in the new age of AI and LLMs. How can you get onboard the AI hype train and not end up in a train wreck? What if setting yourself up for success in the future depends more than ever on “old” ideas like hierarchies, semantics, models, taxonomies… in short, structure? Tune in to hear more and bring your questions for our guests and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian...
Feb 22, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 13
We’re excited to welcome Lior Gavish, CTO and Co-founder of data observability company Monte Carlo, as we kick off the new year with the topic on everyone’s mind: Generative AI. If 2023 was the year of gen AI talk, are organizations ready to walk the walk in 2024? And if the answer is “not yet” or “maybe?” – What can data leaders and teams do to set up their business with the proper foundation for success? Listen to the full episode to find out.
Jan 18, 2024•43 min•Season 2Ep. 12
What do twinkies, weight loss, and LLMs have in common? Data may just have something to do with it. For our last podcast episode of 2023, we sit down with Felipe Hoffa, Data Cloud Advocate at Snowflake, to chat about his favorite and most memorable data trends and developments of the year. Listen to the full episode to find out which topics made the cut!
Dec 12, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Success for a data team today goes beyond technical expertise and a best-of-breed data stack; it hinges on the understanding and support of the C-Suite. In this Coffee with Coalesce episode, we’re excited to host two accomplished data leaders and executives who have mastered this art. Matthew Tischler, Chief Financial Officer of e-retailer RuffleButts and Michael Tantrum, National Sales Director at Resultant, join Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to unravel the secrets o...
Nov 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 10
We’re extremely excited to welcome Bob Muglia to Coffee with Coalesce. The former Microsoft exec and Snowflake CEO doesn’t need an introduction in the data community: a legendary leader whose work has shaped our industry, Muglia joins us to talk about his new book, The Datapreneurs. Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, and Coalesce advisor Kent Graziano. Watch the full episode to hear Muglia and Graziano's take on: how AI and LLMs will change the Modern Data Stack...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 9
On our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Frank Bell, Snowflake Evangelist and Snowflake Data Superhero, and Kent Graziano, Coalesce.io advisor and former Chief Technology Evangelist at Snowflake, to talk all things Snowflake Summit . Watch the full episode to learn how to make the most out of what we think is the best data event of the year and hear. About Coalesce: Founded in 2020, Coalesce is the only data transformation platform built for ...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Ethan Aaron, CEO of Portable, and Sonny Rivera, senior analytics evangelist at Thoughtspot, to discuss the hottest topic in data and business today: Generative AI. Watch the full episode to hear our guests’ hottest takes, including: Top use cases for leveraging Generative AI in data The 80-20 approach for integrating Generative AI into your data workflows Risks and concerns How will Generative AI impact roles and careers wit...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Coalesce Co-Founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Chris Tabb, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of LEIT Data, and Collin Graves, Founder of Northlabs, to talk all things DataOps. Watch the full episode to learn: What is DataOps and how is it similar to–and different from–DevOps and MLOps? What problems does DataOps solve? What are the biggest pitfalls of DataOps? How can data teams set themselves up for success within the larger organization and bring value to the bus...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In our latest Coffee with Coalesce episode, Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and Head of Customer Experience Stewart Bryson sat down with Benjamin Rogojan, a.k.a. Seattle Data Guy, to talk where 2023 is going for data and data teams. Watch the full episode to learn: Top expectations for data engineering teams in 2023, including how to measure the ROI of the team Build vs buy data platforms and solutions: rethinking decisions in today’s economy The cost of compute vs the cost of people: which one ma...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 5
We kicked off 2023 with a discussion on data engineering careers with two of the best known names in the field, Joe Reis and Matt Housley, authors of the best-selling book “Fundamentals of Data Engineering” (O’Reilly, 2022). Watch the full episode to learn: What are the biggest challenges facing data engineering teams? What parts of the analytics workflow is most challenging for organizations? What are the characteristics of a great data leader? Is today’s economy the catalyst the market needed ...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We’re talking data engineering trends (and busts) with Chad Sanderson, head of data at Convoy. From data contracts and data mesh, to AI/ML and data governance and quality, we explore the main topics and pain points impacting your work today, and our predictions for 2023. Hosted by Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian and CTO Satish Jayanthi. Watch the full episode to learn: What are data contracts: key definitions Why data and infrastructure problems inspired the idea for data contracts How data contra...
Jul 17, 2023•59 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Data Modeling is back in vogue, but here’s the twist: there’s a better way to do it with tools and technology built for the cloud. Data veterans Kent Graziano and Matt Florian discuss data modeling best practices in the cloud era. Hosted by Coalesce CEO Armon Petrossian. Watch the full episode to learn: What is data modeling Why data modeling took a backseat and the dangers of agile Why is data modeling making a roaring comeback How bad data modeling can drive up your compute costs How can compa...
Jul 17, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the first Coffee with Coalesce: a series of conversations with experts, thought leaders, and interesting people from the data community recorded live and available on demand at your podcast platform of choice!In this episode, Coalesce.io co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sat down with Kent Graziano to talk about the latest big disruption in the data space: automating data transformations. Find out what attracted Kent to Coalesce after he retired from his role as Chief T...
Jul 17, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 1
