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The Analytics Engineering Podcast goes deep with the practitioners and builders leading the shift in how data work gets done.
Hosted by Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, each episode is a conversation with the data engineers, analytics engineers, and technical leaders building in the agentic era. Topics include data transformation, AI in analytics, data architecture, and what it means to work with data at scale.
For full show notes and transcript, head to roundup.getdbt.com.
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- dbt Charts: The Markdown of dashboards · 57 min.There are two common ways to get AI to make a chart today: ask a BI tool, or accept a pile of generated code that no one can read. Neither gives a data team much to review, test…
- Can data agents do real analysis? · 54 min.Can an AI agent do the work of a junior data analyst? Shreya Shankar, an incoming database professor at Carnegie Mellon University built a benchmark to find out. Her benchmark…
- Open data infrastructure and AI agents (George Fraser & Martin Casado) · 37 min.AI agents are good at getting meaning from data, and the data stack companies have spent ten years building is the ideal source for it. Fivetran + dbt Labs CEO George Fraser…
- Roundup: Personal agents, AI policy, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Jev decision models · 55 min.Personal AI agents hit a tipping point, AI became a top voter issue, and OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz break down stories from the past few weeks and…
- You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario) · 55 min.Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She joins…
- The Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers · 57 min.Four stories: The political fight over data centers, claims about a physical AI model, Ian Macomber on the shape of the post-AI data stack, and an update on the Hugging Face…
- You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny) · 55 min.Guy Podjarny has built developer tools three times over: Blaze (acquired by Akamai), Snyk, and now Tessl. He joins Tristan Handy to argue that skills need the same lifecycle as…
- Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly · 55 min.Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz are back for Roundup. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, two new benchmarks showing data engineering agents are reliably good…
- Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin) · 59 min.Jeremiah Lowin built FastMCP as a side project days after Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol. It's now downloaded millions of times a day. He joins Tristan Handy on…
- Roundup: a rogue agent, Kimi K3, and data teams in the AI era · 1 t. 3 min.Something new. Tristan Handy is joined by Jason Ganz for the first Roundup, a recurring conversation about the stories moving the ecosystem right now. This time: the OpenAI model…
- Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer) · 59 min.Shridhar Iyer spent more than 13 years inside Meta's data organization, most recently leading AI and the data stack. He joins Tristan Handy to talk about how deleting a single…
- The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber) · 51 min.The last time Ramp's Ian Macomber joined the show, the episode was titled, "Ramp's $8 billion data strategy." Ramp is now valued at $44 billion, and the data team's job has…
- The context engineering playbook (Claire Gouze) · 53 min.nao co-founder and CEO Claire Gouze shares a practical playbook for building a context layer your agents can actually rely on. For full show notes and to read the podcast's…
- DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani) · 56 min.Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't big. Three years on, agents are proving him right. The MotherDuck CEO joins Tristan Handy on why…
- The Iceberg ecosystem today (w/ Anders Swanson) · 55 min.Tristan sits down with Anders Swanson, a developer experience advocate at dbt Labs, to talk about the state of the Apache Iceberg ecosystem. They unpack the "open standards"…
- Apache Iceberg and the catalog layer (w/ Russell Spitzer) · 53 min.Tristan talks with Russell Spitzer, a PMC member of Apache Iceberg and principal engineer at Snowflake, about the evolution of open table formats and the catalog layer. They dig…
- AI and the data lake (w/ Lauren Anderson) · 54 min.Tristan talks with Lauren Anderson, Senior Director for Okta's Enterprise Data Platform. Lauren shares how identity sits at the center of two seismic shifts in data—AI agents and…
- Inside Snowflake's AI roadmap (w/ Chris Child) · 57 min.Snowflake VP of Product Management Chris Child joins Tristan Handy to unpack Snowflake's AI roadmap and what it means for data teams. They discuss the evolution from Snowpark to…
- Building a multimodal lakehouse for AI (w/ Chang She) · 57 min.In this episode, Tristan Handy sits down with Chang She — a co-creator of Pandas and now CEO of LanceDB — to explore the convergence of analytics and AI engineering. The team at…
- Agentic coding in analytics engineering (w/ Mikkel Dengsøe) · 44 min.Tristan talks with Mikkel Dengsøe, co-founder at SYNQ, to break down what agentic coding looks like in analytics engineering. Mikkel walks through a hands-on project using…
