The Analytics Engineering Podcast

Brad Culberson is a Principal Architect in the Field CTO’s office at Snowflake.

Niall Woodward is a co-founder of SELECT, a startup providing optimization and spend management software for Snowflake …

Nick Handel, as co-founder at Transform, helped develop the popular open source metrics framework MetricFlow. Drew Banin, a co-founder at dbt Labs, helped build the initial version of the dbt Semanti…

Sarah and Chris are both at the forefront of bringing the promise of gen AI to our actual work as data people—which is a unique challenge!  Precise truth is critical for business questions in a way t…

Auren Hoffman currently serves as the CEO and Chief Historian at SafeGraph, a data-as-a-service company he founded, which provides primarily location data. 

In this conversation with Tristan and Juli…

Mike Stonebraker is a veritable database pioneer and a Turing Award recipient. In addition to teaching at MIT, he is a serial entrepreneur and co-creator of Postgres.

Andy Palmer is a veteran busines…

Wes McKinney is the creator of pandas, co-creator of Apache Arrow, and now Co-founder/CTO at Voltron Data.

In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Wes takes us on a tour of the underlying guts, …

Product experimentation is full of potholes for companies of any size, given the number of pieces (tooling, culture, process, persistence) that need to come together to be successful.

Vijaye Raji (cu…

The first LIVE IRL episode!  

Stephen Bailey, data engineer at Whatnot and writer of an incredibly entertaining data substack, joins Tristan for a follow-up conversation to Stephen’s Coalesce talk, “…

WARNING: This episode contains detailed discussion of data contracts.

The modern data stack introduces challenges in terms of collaboration between data producers and consumers. How might we solve th…

Abhi is a growth and data leader, and an excellent Twitter follow. Most recently, he was Head of Growth and Analytics at Flexport, where he helped the company to grow 10x over the past 3 years. Previ…

Katie was a founding member of Reddit's data science team and, currently, as Twitter’s Data Science Manager, she leads the company’s infrastructure data science and analytics organization.

In this co…

As Head of Analytics at Clearbit, Julie serves as a data team of one in a 200+ person company (wow!).

In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Julie dives into how she's helped Clearbit implement…

Jordan Tigani is an expert in large-scale data processing, having spent a decade+ in the development and growth of BigQuery, and later SingleStore.

Today, Jordan and his team at MotherDuck are in the…

Matt Bornstein and Jennifer Li (and their co-author Martin Casado) of a16z have compiled arguably the most nuanced diagram of the data ecosystem ever made. 

They recently refreshed their classic 2020…

ClickHouse, the lightning-fast open source OLAP database, was initially released in 2016 as an open source project out of Yandex, the Russian search giant.

In 2021, Aaron Katz helped form a group to …

Justin Borgman is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Starburst, and has almost a decade spent in senior executive roles building new businesses in the data warehousing and analytics space. 

In this …

Amit Prakash is Co-founder and CTO at ThoughtSpot. He has a deep background in search, having previously led the AdSense engineering team at Google and served on the early Bing team at Microsoft.

In …

Most recently leading a data engineering team at Perpay, Sarah has built and managed data platforms end to end by working closely with internal engineering, product, and operational teams. She recent…

As a PhD candidate at MIT, Kevin (and friends) published Sherlock, a data type detection engine (a surprisingly bedeviling problem) for data cleaning + data discovery.

Now as co-founder and CEO of Me…

A debate has erupted on data Twitter and data Substack - should the modern data stack remain unbundled, or should it consolidate?

In this conversation, Benn Stancil (Mode), David Jayatillake (Avora) …