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.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 482
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
41: Doing MLOps on Top of Apache Pulsar and Trino with Joshua Odmark of Pandio
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…
40: Graph Processing on Snowflake for Customer Behavioral Analytics
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…
39: Diving deeper into CDC with Ali Hamidi and Taron Foxworth of Meroxa
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 s…
38: Graph Databases & Data Governance with David Allen of Neo4j
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 compa…
37: The Components of Data Governance with Dave Melillo of FanDuel
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"…
36: Crypto and Compliance with Nick Fogle, Co-Founder of Churnkey and Wavve
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 decis…
35: The Future of Development is Distributed with Jim Walker of Cockroach Labs
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…
34: The Intersection of Data Engineering and Marketing with John Marbachm of Grafana Labs
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 ro…
33: ML is a Data Quality Problem with Peter Gao from Aquarium Learning
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 …
32: Cooking with Data Ops with Chris Bergh from DataKitchen
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 t…
31: How a 160 Year-Old Publisher is Using Data with Jenna Lemonias From the Atlantic
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 adapti…
30: The DataStack Journey with Rachel Bradley-Haas and Alex Dovenmuehle of Big Time Data
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, Her…
29: The Present and Future of Data Engineering with Joe Reis and Matthew Housley from Ternary Data
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” …
28: Next Gen Data Governance with Stefania from Avo
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 governanc…
27: Building B2B Marketplaces with Mike Luby from LeafLink
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 thousand…
26: Democratizing the Insurance Market with Daniel Gremmell from Policygenius Inc.
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 p…
25: MLOps and Feature Stores with Willem Pienaar from Tecton
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 inc…
24: Demystifying AI with Duc Haba
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 Cogniza…
23: Migrating from On-Premises to the Cloud with Alex Lancaster from Intuit
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 QuickB…
22: Season One Recap with Eric Dodds and Kostas Pardalis
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 a…