Highlights from this week’s episode: Joshua started his first company at age 15 and then sold two more startups after that (2:15) Embracing the open source movement and not reinventing the wheel if you don't have to (12:15) Pulsar seemed built to address Kafka's weaknesses (17:23) Using Redis as a coordinator for federated learning and taking advantage of its portability (23:05) The pillars of Pandio and some practical use cases (31:24) Feature stores and model versioning (38:23) Seeing Pulsar a...
Jun 23, 2021•50 min
Highlights from this week’s episode include: Launching Affinio and the engineering backgrounds of the co-founders (2:36) The massive transformation in customer data privacy regulation in the past eight years (6:23) Creating the underpinning technology that can apply to any customer behavioral data set (10:05) Ranking and scoring surfing patterns and sorting nodes and edges (14:13) Placing the importance of attributes into a simple UI experience (19:28) Going from a columnar database to a graph p...
Jun 16, 2021•58 min
Highlights from this week’s episode include: Meroxa is a real-time data engineering managed platform (4:53) Use cases for CDC (6:20) Meroxa leverages open source tools to provide initial snapshots and start the CDC stream (12:29) Making the platform publicly available (14:14) What the Meroxa user experience looks like (16:10) Raising Series A funding (17:49) Easiest and most difficult data sources for CDC (20:23) The current state of open CDC (23:16) Expected latency when using CDC (29:56 CDC, r...
Jun 11, 2021•50 min
Highlights from this week's episode include: David’s background in comparative databases (1:50) David’s experience and lessons he learned from writing his book (3:23) How writing a technical book compares to writing technical documentation (4:41) The process of writing a book (6:30) The best and worst part of David’s book writing experience (8:02) An introduction to what Neo4j is (9:08) What you need to graph (11:13) Typical problems a graph database is a good solution for (13:00) The difference...
Jun 02, 2021•51 min
Highlights from this week's episode include: Dave's "nerdy" interests in sports statistics and data (2:12) Trends in collecting, processing, and using data (4:45) Finding a better term for "reverse ETL" (5:48) The blurring of the distinction between sources and destinations (7:41) The role of BI is changing (13:24) Data governance and the physical execution behind it (19:00) Data governance is defining and managing data in a logical way that is actionable by the business (23:43) Consolidation of...
May 26, 2021•54 min
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Nick Fogle, co-founder of Churnkey and Wavve. Together they discuss how having a legal background can impact engineering decisions, dealing with privacy and compliance concerns, and selling Wavve and starting Churnkey as a result. Highlights from this week's episode include: Nick's background in economics and law and teaching himself to code (2:01) Thinking like a lawyer and trying to minimize risk to the greatest extent po...
May 19, 2021•43 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Jim Walker, the VP of product marketing at Cockroach Labs, about distributed systems, competing against the speed of light, and making data easy. Highlights from this week's episode include: Jim background of translating deep technical concepts into understandable English and his work at Cockroach Labs (2:23) The origin of Cockroach Labs and distributed SQL (6:10) Living without Atomic Clocks (10:10) Having the speed of light as the ult...
May 12, 2021•54 min
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with John Marbach, senior growth manager at Grafana Labs. In this conversation, John discusses marketing ops and the blending of roles of data engineering and marketing. Highlights from this week's episode include: Grafana Labs John Marbach Senior Growth Manager Introduction to John Marbach and working in the blurred lines between marketing and data engineering (2:14) How managing pipeline building and consuming data influences ...
Apr 28, 2021•49 min
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Peter Gao, co-founder, and CEO at Aquarium Learning. A former engineer at Cruise Automation, Peter and Aquarium Learning help ML teams improve their model performances by improving their data. Highlights from this week's episode include: How getting hit by a drunk driver made researching self-driving cars personal for Peter (2:12) Filtering out the hype in self-driving car news to get a clear picture of its state today (6:5...
Apr 14, 2021•57 min
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas talk with Chris Bergh, the CEO and head chef at Data Kitchen. DataKitchen’s mission is to provide the software, service, and knowledge that makes it possible for every data and analytics team to realize their full potential with DataOps. Highlights from this week's episode include: Chris' background and how the lessons learned in the Peace Corps and at NASA apply to him today (2:03) Why AI left Chris feeling like a jilted lover (7:49...
Apr 07, 2021•59 min
On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Jenna Lemonias, director of data science at The Atlantic. The Atlantic, a publication that's been around since 1857, is adapting with the times and is implementing and emulating some of the data science practices seen at big tech companies. Highlights from this week's episode include: Jenna's background in astrophysics and how she pivoted to data science (2:14) Differences in dealing with data at a FinTech company and then ...
Mar 31, 2021•43 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by the co-founders of Big Time Data, Rachel Bradley-Haas, and Alex Dovenmuehle, formerly of Mattermost and prior to that, Heroku. At Big Time Data, they work together to provide companies with the ability to derive value and insights from decentralized datasets, improve business processes through data enrichment and automation, and build a scalable foundation to enable a data-driven culture. Highlights from this week’s epi...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 2 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Matthew Housley, CTO, and Joe Reis, CEO and co-founder of Ternary Data. These self-described “recovering data scientists” focus on teaching skills to build a solid foundation for organizations to work with their data. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Joe and Matt’s background and expertise (2:44) Common threads and trends in the data sphere (9:39) Differences and commonalities between startups and enterprise...
Mar 17, 2021•58 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Stefanía Bjarney Ólafsdóttir, the CEO and co-founder of Avo. Avo, which started in 2018, provides data analytics governance as a service, helping organizations make data-driven decisions to improve their customer experience. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Stefania's background with mathematics, philosophy, bioinformatics and consumer mobile (2:39) Making pioneering decisions as head of data science at Quiz...
Mar 10, 2021•59 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Mike Luby, director of engineering at LeafLink. LeafLink is a cannabis industries B2B wholesale marketplace where thousands of brands can manage and track their orders and relationships. Highlights from this week’s episode include: The infrastructure LeafLink provides for the cannabis supply chain and how it deals with compliance issues. (2:03) Structuring product management organization to launch high-velocity teams (8...
Mar 03, 2021•42 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Daniel Gremymell, head of data at Policygenius, Inc. Policygenius, an insurance marketplace, strives to make it easy for people to understand their options, compare quotes, and buy a policy all in one place with help from licensed experts. Highlights from this week’s episode include: What brought Daniel to Policygenius and how his background in industrial engineering and statistics impacts what he does (1:49) Policygeni...
Feb 24, 2021•39 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas is joined by Willem Pienaar, tech lead at Tecton to discuss machine learning, features and feature stores. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Willem Pienaar's background in South Africa and southeast Asia and from Goject to Tecton (1:58) Tecton was founded by the builders of Uber's Michaelangelo (6:37) Defining features and their life cycles (10:05) Comparing a feature store to a database (16:40) Data architecture in a feature store...
Feb 17, 2021•51 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric is joined by Duc Haba, an AI researcher and enterprise mobility solution architect consultant who most recently did AI consulting work with Cognizant. Their discussion revolves around demystifying artificial intelligence and why so many people either fear AI or place too much trust in it. Duc talks about some of the AI projects he has worked on, some successes and some failures, and points to how the data biases that humans bring into the model...
Feb 10, 2021•51 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by the risk data engineering manager at Intuit, Alex Lancaster. Alex has been with Intuit, known for its products like QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint and more, for 15 years and was part of a recent massive and successful re-architecturing from on prem to cloud-based. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Alex and his role at Intuit (1:51) Data marts at Intuit (2:57) Revolutionary changes in the data engineering space in...
Feb 03, 2021•43 min
Season One of The Data Stack Show is in the books, and in this episode, Kostas and Eric take a look back at some of the biggest takeaways, trends, and topics from the season. With some great guests already set for season two, the next slate of episodes is shaping up to take an even deeper dive into the world of data and the people shaping it. Key points in the conversation include: Patterns with data warehouses and data lakes (3:38) Looking back at the people behind the data and their stories (8...
Jan 29, 2021•30 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by the co-founders of Iteratively, CEO Patrick Thompson and CTO Ondrej Hrebicek. Iteratively helps companies know that their data can be trusted by helping capture clean, consistent product analytics. Today’s conversation digs into the behind the scenes of Iteratively and how trust in data can help accelerate the velocity of an organization. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Patrick and Ondrej’s background and t...
Jan 20, 2021•46 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Arian Osman, a senior data scientist at Homesnap who is also nearing the end of his PhD in computational sciences and informatics and is the developer of an e-commerce clothing brand. Homesnap is designed for both homebuyers and agents to access data from the MLS (Multiple Listing Service), providing real-time, accurate information to all parties involved. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Arian’s background and an overvi...
Jan 13, 2021•53 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Stephen Bailey, Director of Applied Data Science at Immuta. Immuta is a startup that focuses on enabling data teams to have really fast, efficient, and understandable access controls on their data. Highlights from this week’s episode include: The problem that Immuta solves (2:04) Stephen’s background researching how the brain works (4:56) Immuta’s stack (15:09) Leveraging metadata (18:02) The main use case for Immuta is simplifying ...
Jan 06, 2021•53 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Jason Haupt, data science lead at Bind, a no-deductible health insurance company determined to give immediate answers and clear costs before point of care. Jason’s unique background of having a Ph.D. in particle physics and working at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have informed the way he goes about approaching data at Bind. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Jason’s background in particle physics and his path to Bind ...
Dec 31, 2020•55 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Ioannis Papapanagiotou, senior engineering manager at Netflix. Ioannis oversees Netflix’s data storage platform and its data integration platform. Their conversation highlighted the various responsibilities his lean teams have, utilizing open source technology and incorporating change data capture solutions. Key points in this week’s episode include: Ioannis’ background with academia and Netflix (4:42) Comparing the data storage and...
Dec 09, 2020•57 min
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric finish part two of a conversation about Earnnest, a digital platform originally designed for facilitating real estate transactions. In the previous episode , they talked with the CTO and co-founder Daniel Jeffords, and in this week’s episode, they talked with the other co-founder, Andrew Elster, CIO and chief architect. Andrew describes more about Earnnest’s stack and their decision to utilize Elixir and talks about their vision for ...
Dec 03, 2020•46 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Axel Delafosse, founder and CEO of Pool, a messaging app designed to help couples spend less time deciding what to do and spend more time together. Axel shares his story of how he went from having his idea being shot down in person by Paul Graham to being accepted for Y Combinator. While Pool is still a young startup, Axel offers wise insight from lessons he’s learned along the way. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Pool ...
Nov 19, 2020•48 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric chat with Daniel Jeffords, CTO and co-founder of Earnnest , a financial tool for the real estate industry. Earnnest’s digital platform allows buyers to securely and electronically deposit funds directly to an escrow holder and keeps agents, buyers, and escrow holders in the loop with automated emails and tracking information. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Earnnest’s approach to the way payments are handled in an antiquated real est...
Nov 11, 2020•48 min
This week on The Data Stack Show, Reza Shafii, vice president of products at Kong Inc . discusses open source projects and products with Kostas and Eric. Kong is a cloud connectivity company best known for being the creator and primary supporter of Kong, the most widely adopted open-source micro service API gateway. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Being a self-proclaimed middleware geek (2:17) Middleware explained (5:41) Kong as a company, open source project, and a brand (10:44) Dr...
Nov 06, 2020•40 min
In this episode of The Data Stack Show, hosts Kostas Pardalis and Eric Dodds talk with Nicholas Ziech-Lopez, director of product strategy at MessageGears. MessageGears is designed to reduce data friction for marketers by connecting directly to a brand’s data source and using their live data. This episode centered around the world of CDPs and where MessageGears fits in that space. Highlights from this week’s episode include: Nicholas’ arrival at MessageGears and the company’s background (2:20) Me...
Oct 28, 2020•56 min
