We are best friends, we've been co workers for years, and now we're co-founders! But most of all, we love talking about data. Mostly metadata, and data infrastructure even more. Join us as we talk to data professionals, data vendors, and crazy enthusiasts like us to praise, diss and blab about data.
Giannis Polyzos, principal streaming architect at Ververica, discusses the evolution of streaming architectures and the rise of Flink, offering insights into simplifying state management and unifying tables and streams in an interview.
29 Aug 2025
14 - Hunch - David Wilson
Host Alex Lieberman interviews David Wilson, co-founder and CEO of Hunch, about building AI-powered automation platforms and navigating the challenges of trust and reliability in rapidly evolving technology.
28 Jul 2025
13 - Clickhouse - Christoph Wurm
Christoph Wurm, ClickHouse Solution Architect, examines ClickHouse's architecture and the difficulties of scaling analytics databases in this interview, highlighting the influence of AI on data accessibility.
24 Jun 2025
12 - Johan Baltzar
Johan Baltzar, CEO of Steep, recounts his transition from Spotify analytics to founding Steep, addressing BI tool challenges and advocating for accessible, intuitive data for business users in this interview.
15 Jun 2025
11 - Viktor Kessler
Viktor Kessler, co-founder of LakeKeeper, discusses why catalogs represent the future of data infrastructure and how metadata enables actionable insights in an open, vendor-neutral environment; this is an interview.
28 Apr 2025
10 - Opher Kahane
In this episode, we chat with Opher Kahane, an entrepreneur with three successful startups under his belt. He shares his experience transitioning from founder to advisor, working with over 40 startups. The discussion covers the rapid evolution of AI and data platforms, challenges faced by startups, and the potential of AI to improve data quality. This episode is packed with insights on the future of data and AI, and the traits that drive successful entrepreneurship.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/okahane/
28 Apr 2025
09 - MLOps community - Demetrios Brinkmann
In this episode of The Data Builders Podcast, we dive into a lively conversation with Demetrios founder of MLOps Community. He shares his journey from being a sales guy to running a global community of AI/ML practitioners with over 20,000 members. He discusses the importance of creating psychological safety in communities, the evolution of data science and machine learning projects, and the rise of AI engineers. We also explore fascinating AI agent use cases, their challenges, and the cognitive load involved in interacting with chatbots. Join us for behind-the-scenes look at building a thriving community in the tech world.
28 Apr 2025
08 - Rakesh Soni
In this episode, we chat with Rakesh Sony, an enterprise data veteran with extensive experience at Databricks and Airbnb. Rakesh shares his journey, recounting his time building Databricks from its early days with a small team to becoming a leading data platform. We explore the evolution of Databricks, its strategic decisions around open source, and the data challenges at large-scale consumer web companies like Airbnb. Rakesh also shares his current work with early-stage data and AI startups, offering insights into industry trends and the exciting intersection of data science and AI today.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonirakesh/
26 Feb 2025
07 - Upsolver (Qlik) - Roy Hasson
In this episode, we had the pleasure of diving deep into the realms of Iceberg and general data trends with one of the most insightful voices in data today - Roy Hasson. As an AWS veteran who helped develop many of the cloud's core services we rely on, Roy has spent the past 3+ years leading product for Upsolver, which was recently acquired by Qlik, a leading data analytics and business intelligence software company.
If Roy's name rings a bell, you already know this episode is worth your time. If not, tune in to get his perspective on what's genuinely transformative in data today versus what's just hype. Either way, you're encouraged to follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/royhasson/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/royhasson/) for more of his expert insights.
24 Dec 2024
06 - Aimpoint Digital - Edward Valentine
In this episode we talk to Edward Valentine, Principal Decision Scientist at Aimpoint Digital.
We explore his work building repricing and prediction models for different organizations, consider a dating app for time-series enthusiasts, and debate on the joys (and challenges) of using Databricks.
We wrap up with a thoughtful discussion on the evolving roles of data scientists and engineers in today’s tech landscape.
Enjoy!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-spenner-valentine/
4 Dec 2024
05 - Inspirato - Craig Salzsieder
In this episode we talk to Craig Salzsieder, director of data platform at Inspirato.
We chat about Vacation homes, Beach clubs, Multi agent architectures, Build tools for monorepos and Python centric data platforms.
So basically we talk about everything.
Enjoy!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-salzsieder-183a1722/
21 Oct 2024
04 - Tobiko - Iaroslav Zeigerman
In this episode we host Iaroslav Zeigerman from Tobiko to talk about their incredible open source projects SQLGlot And SQLMesh and how they're planning to win over the hearts of all DBT users.
https://sqlmesh.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/izeigerman/
21 Oct 2024
03 - Cube - Artyom Keydunov
We've been fans of cube for a very long time. In this episode we talk to Cube's co-founder Artyom Keydunov about semantic layers.
https://cube.dev/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keydunov/
21 Oct 2024
02 - Featured episode with Sanjeev Mohan
In this special feature, we’re excited to share our guest appearance on Sanjeev Mohan’s It Depends podcast! Join us as we dive deep into the latest trends in data infrastructure, from Lakehouse to open table formats, to Databricks vs. Snowflake and the rise of DuckDB - Hosted by the brilliant Sanjeev Mohan, we cover it all!
Sanjeev's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjmo/
ItDepends episode #68: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWnMb0YiQRk
21 Oct 2024
01 - Intro to the data swamp
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