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81: Digging into Data Ops with Prukalpa Sankar of Atlan

Mar 30, 202256 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Prukalpa’s background and career journey (3:16)
  • Applying a data-driven mindset to poverty (7:21)
  • What Atlan does (11:53)
  • The makeup of a realistically functioning data team (15:25)
  • How to create a company’s first data team (18:13)
  • Defining “agile data” (22:01)
  • The necessity of data ops (26:36)
  • The minimum data stack needed (29:16)
  • Data team size (31:58)
  • Where to start when you need to make adjustments (34:51)
  • Collaborate with different parts of the data stack (41:27)
  • Defining the metadata plane (44:29)
  • Lessons from facing crazy data problems (48:31)

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