Data Engineering Central Podcast
by Data Engineering in Real Life
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Life After Big Tech
Life After Big Tech
About this podcast
Long Live the Data Engineer. No holds barred. Talking about Data Engineering news, topics, and general mayhem.
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Episodes
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- Life After Big Tech · 50 minWhat happens when you finally achieve financial independence, walk away from a successful career in Big Tech, and have the freedom to do whatever you want? Is it everything you…
- AI Is a Mirror: MLOps, LLMOps & the Future of AI Engineering | Maria Vechtomova · 50 minWhat does it actually take to build AI systems that work in production? In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Maria Vechtomova, AI Engineering Lead…
- The Future of Data Engineering in the Age of AI | Erfan Hesami · 47 minI sat down with Erfan Hesami, founder of Pipeline to Insights, to talk about where data engineering is headed as AI and agents become part of everyday engineering work. We dig…
- Big Tech Laid Him Off. He Realized He Didn’t Need a Job. — Asian Dad Energy · 49 minWhat happens when you spend decades building a successful career in tech, finally reach Big Tech, and then suddenly get laid off? In this episode of the Data Engineering Central…
- Spark Isn't Going Anywhere. So They Rebuilt It in Rust. — Shehab Amin, CEO of LakeSail · 57 minIn this episode, I sit down with Shehab Amin, co-founder and CEO of LakeSail, to talk about what happens when you decide to rebuild one of data engineering’s most important…
- Agentic Data Engineering Is Here — But Can It Close the Loop? · 34 minAI can now write SQL, generate Python, review pull requests, and build entire applications with a few well-crafted prompts. Yet despite all of that progress, data engineering…
- What Happens When a Software Engineer Builds a Company Alone? · 48 minWhen people think about starting a software company, they usually imagine raising venture capital, hiring engineers, and growing a team as quickly as possible. Michael Drogalis…
- The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering · 1 h 0 minThe creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, Wes McKinney, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for an in-depth conversation about how modern data engineering came…
- From COBOL to Copilot: 30 Years of Data, BI, and AI with David Langer · 57 minWhat happens when someone who started programming on a Commodore 64 watches AI reshape the entire data industry? In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit…
- Semantic Layers, Agents, and the Future of Analytics · 45 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with David Jaitillake to explore the future of data engineering, analytics, and AI. David has spent nearly two…
- The Future of the Lakehouse: Delta Lake, Rust, and Data Platforms at Scale · 56 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Ethan, a maintainer of delta-rs and an expert in modern lakehouse architecture working in the…
- From Failure to AWS: What Actually Makes a Great Engineer · 52 minVictor Moreno went from failing out of a top CS program to becoming a senior engineer at AWS, and his story says a lot about what actually matters in software engineering today…
- How Real Data Engineers Think (Beyond Tools and Hype) · 49 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Yordan Ivanov, Head of Data Engineering at a growing fintech company, to talk through what it actually…
- Data, AI, and DuckDB · 50 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Jacob Matson, Developer Advocate at MotherDuck, to unpack one of the most interesting shifts happening in…
- Why I Left Facebook to Work for Myself · 53 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Ben Rogojan to talk about the real story behind data engineering careers, Big Tech, and what’s changing…
- Academic → CTO: What Actually Matters in Data (Matthew Housley) · 56 minMost companies don’t have a tooling problem. They have a foundation problem. In this episode, I sit down with Matthew Housley, a famed co-author of Data Engineering Fundamentals…
- AI Isn’t Replacing Curious Developers · 1 h 3 minAI isn’t just changing how we write code. It’s changing what it even means to build software. In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Neil…
- AI Is Changing Data Engineering Fast · 57 minIn this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Andreas Kretz to break down what is really happening in the industry right now. We go far beyond…
- Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong · 59 minMost data teams think they’re building value. In reality, they’ve become ticket queues. In this episode, Chris Gambill explains his storied career in tech and data through the…
- From Industrial Data at BASF to Delta Lake Committer · 48 minIn this episode, Robert Pack walks through his journey from engineering and simulation work to building large-scale data systems across 900+ plants at BASF. We break down what…
