The Data Stack Show

Each week we’ll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.

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11: Why Modern Cyber Security is a Data Problem with Jack Naglieri of Panther Labs

This week’s episode of The Data Stack Show features a conversation with hosts Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds and guest Jack Naglieri, founder and CEO of Panther Labs. Panther, a San Francisco based startup, is an open platform that helps security teams detect and respond to breaches in cloud-native environments, providing a modern alternative to traditional SIEMs. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Introduction to Jack and Panther Labs (2:33) The different pillars of data security (10:...

Oct 21, 2020•59 min

10: The Evolution of the BI Market with Huy Nguyen of Holistics

In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by CTO and Co-Founder of Holistics, Huy Nguyen. Holistics takes an approach to business intelligence and data analytics that they call DataOps. They focus on data team productivity and company-wide access to insights. Important points in the conversation included: Introduction to Huy and Holistics (3:12) Approaching BI with more than just visualization (8:59) How friction between different roles within an or...

Oct 14, 2020•56 min

09: Building the Operating System for Work with Ivan Kanevski of Slapdash

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Slapdash co-founder Ivan Kanevski. Slapdash describes itself as the operating system for work. Slapdash emphasizes reducing the time people spend controlling their computer in relation to the time they spend expressing their intent. Key topics discussed were: Starting Slapdash and expanding on tools from working at Facebook (3:31) Being client agnostic and working with the tools that people bring to the j...

Oct 07, 2020•44 min

08: When data alone is not enough - Reinventing book shopping at Bookshop.org with Mason Stewart

In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds chat with Mason Stewart, the lead engineer at Bookshop.org . Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. Their hope is to help strengthen the fragile ecosystem and margins around bookselling and keep local bookstores an integral part of our culture and communities. Among other topics, today’s conversation talked about making what some might call boring decisions ...

Sep 30, 2020•54 min

07: Discussing Data Engineering Best Practices with IFTTT’s Peter Darche

In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds connect with IFTTT data scientist Peter Darche. IFTTT is a free platform that helps all your products and services work better together through automated tasks. Their discussion covered a lot of ground involving their data stack, their use cases and clearing up once and for all how to pronounce the company’s name. Background on IFTTT (2:12) Peter tells the proper way to pronounce IFTTT (3:34) An overview of IFTTT’s tec...

Sep 23, 2020•35 min

06: The Technical Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Startup Inside a Large Bank with Sam Bledsoe of Ruby

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds continue their conversation about Ruby, a start-up designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, by talking with the Nashville company’s CTO Sam Bledsoe. This follow-up discussion digs into how their data engineering and marketing setups co-exist and how they rely on Azure. Sam’s background and more info about Ruby (2:11) Privacy-related challenges at the intersection of ba...

Sep 16, 2020•49 min

05: The Convergence of Data Engineering and Marketing with Nic Discepoli of Ruby

On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds are joined by Nic Discepoli for the first of two conversations about Ruby, a startup where he is the customer analytics lead. This Nashville-based company is designed to help families navigate their financial situation in some of life’s most challenging moments, often corresponding with a medical event. Their conversation included topics like: Launching Ruby and Nic’s involvement in the company (3:35) Realizing that tr...

Sep 09, 2020•44 min

04: Relational to Real-Time with Change Data Capture with DeVaris Brown of Meroxa

In this episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds talk change data capture (CDC) with DeVaris Brown, co-founder and CEO of Meroxa. Their conversation digs into the benefits of utilizing CDC and how Meroxa is using it. Highlights from the conversation include: Introduction to DeVaris and Meroxa (3:24) Why CDC has more traction today (6:58) How CDC is changing the way we build products (12:52) Where CDC is playing an important role (21:11) The experience that Meroxa delivers (...

Sep 02, 2020•50 min

03: Turning All Data at Grofers into Live Event Streams

In this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas Pardalis connects with Satyam Krishna, a data engineer at Grofers , India’s largest low-price online supermarket. Grofers boasts a network of more than 5,000 partner stores, a user base with three million iOS and Android app downloads, and an efficient supply chain that allow it to deliver more than 25 million products to customers every month. Satyam offers insights into how he helped build the data engineering function at Grofers, how they ...

Aug 27, 2020•39 min

02: The Importance of Data During a Global Pandemic with Utkarsh Gupta of 1mg

In this episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Utkarsh Gupta, senior engineer of data science at 1mg, India’s largest online healthcare platform. Together they discussed 1mg’s data infrastructure, its response to the global pandemic and how data drives their product and their business. Highlights from the show included discussions about: Utkarsh and 1MG’s background (1:32) 1mg being based on a bedrock of data (4:25) Business analytics (5:33) Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on business (11:40) Desc...

Aug 19, 2020•45 min

01: Discussing Mattermost Data Infrastructure with Alex Dovenmuehle

In this episode, Kostas Pardalis sits down with Alex Dovenmuehle, head of data engineering for Mattermost, an open-source self-hosted communication tool that optimizes dev workflows in highly secure environments. Kostas and Alex discuss: Alex's background and experience (2:29) Data stack Mattermost is using (9:25) How Mattermost built their Data Stack (21:05) Using data to understand the story of the customer's journey (24:58) Focus on privacy and security (26:33) Practical ways Mattermost is us...

Aug 12, 2020•46 min

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Jul 31, 2020•1 min

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