Hashmap on Tap

Dr. Victor Lee is Vice President of Machine Learning and AI at TigerGraph, a platform providing a leading graph database as a software as a service supporting real-time analytics. Dr. Lee joins the show to discuss how graph data represents objects and relationships as another type of object. At TigerGraph, they treat relationships as equally important as the node objects themselves.

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Tomer Shiran is Co-Founder and CPO of Dremio, a Bay Area-based, high-performance, forever-free lakehouse platform that builds on an open data architecture by the creators of Apache Arrow. Prior to founding Drimeo, Tomer was an early employee at MapR Technologies where he ran product management. Tomer dives into their plans at Dremio to impact the data industry through better, more scalable platforms which will allow companies to have a data platform they can truly rely on. Listen in to hear more about Tomer's background, how Dremio got started, and their plans for the future.

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Manish is Co-Founder and CEO at Hevo Data. They are a Bay Area-based data integration platform for moving data into your cloud data warehouse. Hevo Data also provides reverse ETL capabilities to move data from your warehouse to SaaS applications. Listen in to the episode to learn more about Hevo Data and how they’ve created a no-code, intuitive data pipeline.

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Welcome back, Richie Bachala! Richie is a Principal at Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database built to power global-scale, cloud-native applications. On this episode, Richie joins us to walk us through his latest blog post about the Data Engineering Center of Excellence, current trends for where investment is going in data, and his current role at Yugabyte. Listen in to hear some fantastic perspectives on data engineering and what areas you should be keeping an eye on.

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Maarten is Co-Founder and CEO at Soda. They are a Brussels Belgium-based, open-source data observability and monitoring platform for a modern data stack that helps you address both data quality and trust. They are ensuring high-quality, trusted data is available to enable confident decision-making for data teams. Maarten shares how Soda was started, the advantages of an open-source platform, and what data reliability and observability mean today. Find out how they are enabling data teams to discover, prioritize, and resolve data issues.

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Who has time to constantly monitor dashboards? Cliff.ai tracks unexpected changes in your metrics instantly without creating dashboards or complex data pipelines. Aayush Jain is Co-Founder and CEO at cliff.ai where they are helping businesses stay on the top of their metrics without any dashboards or coding with a goal of finding & fixing business issues as they are happening using data. Prior to cliff.ai Aayush founded multiple other companies including Greendeck and TrueMD. Listen to this episode to hear more about Aayush’s journey, how cliff.ai began, and how they are taking responsibility for business reliability. 

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Armon Petrossian is CEO & Co-Founder of Coalesce, a code-first, GUI-driven data transformation solution that is architected for scale, is column aware, has native git integration, and provides automated documentation. Prior to Coalesce, Armon was part of the founding team at Wherescape. Listen in to the episode to hear Armon and host Kelly Kohlleffel discuss how Coalesce started, the originating problem statement, the importance of a column-aware architecture, and why Coalesce makes sure anyone brought on board is a great culture fit, plus much more.  

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Andrew is Founder and CEO at Praxi Data which has a patented matching engine coupled with curated data libraries to enable true enterprise data discovery. Praxi Data enables you to search across all of your data with any coding standard and run their ML algorithms to discover the best quality source information, securely. They provide continuous deep data-driven insights for businesses and organizations by automating key processes with industry-specific expert libraries of terms. Prior to founding Praxi Data, Andrew spent time at Waterline Data, Hortonworks, Intercontinental Exchange, and the NYSE. Listen in to the episode to hear how Praxi Data got started and where they’re at in their journey to making the most out of data:

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Kevin is Co-Founder and CEO at Metaplane a Y Combinator backed data observability platform for the modern data stack that tells you when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix them proactively. Metaplane helps teams efficiently monitor their cloud data warehouse while identifying downstream impact with automated warehouse-to-BI lineage. Kevin previously earned a PhD from MIT, where he focused on researching automated data visualization and semantic type detection. Metaplane wants to ensure that every company of any size can trust its data. Listen in to the episode to hear how Kevin and the team plan to achieve their goals.

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March is a month dedicated to highlighting the contributions of women throughout history. We are thrilled to host three women data leaders to discuss their thoughts on modern solutions to data governance. Jyoti Pathak is Director of Data Engineering and Analytics at TD SYNNEX. They’re a leading distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem. Molly Vorwerck is Head of Content and Communications at Monte Carlo, a data observability and reliability platform. Amy Horowitz is Regional Vice President at Matillion, a modern analytics and cloud-native solution providing ETL and data integration solutions. A topic that has been coming up a lot lately is data quality and reliability. Listen in to this special episode to hear perspectives on modern solutions for data reliability and data quality.

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Sharad Varshney is Co-Founder and CEO at OvalEdge, a cost-effective data catalog and data governance toolset designed to be used by everyone, every day, to get trusted data when they need it. Prior to OvalEdge, Sharad spent time at Hortonworks, Cohesive, and other tech companies. Listen in to the episode to hear why Sharad believes data governance is a necessity for all businesses and how setting standards helps to ensure that data is trustworthy.

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Jeremiah Lowin and host Kelly Kohlleffel discuss how Prefect is making “dataflows as easy as .py.” Jeremiah is Co-Founder and CEO at Prefect where they are providing workflow management, orchestration, scheduling, and dataflow automation. Jeremiah and the team view Prefect as an insurance product. They provide the most value when something has gone wrong rather than when everything is working fine. Listen in to the episode to hear Jeremiah’s story, how Prefect started and where they are today, and how they are eliminating the worry from data pipelines.

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Clément is Co-Founder & CPTO at Octolis, where they are enabling business teams to combine all of their customer data, enrich it, and sync it back to operational tools and business systems like Salesforce, Zendesk, Mailchimp, and others. Octolis handles activities such as data standardization, deduplication, and scoring and has over 30 native connectors. They allow users to combine customer data without technical skills to enable them to deploy data-driven marketing action from day one. Listen to the full episode to hear more on Clément’s background in consulting and how he started Octolis, their plans for the future, and his perspectives on the future of the modern data stack.

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Todd Crosslin joins host Kelly Kohlleffel to discuss the rapid evolution of data in the healthcare industry. Todd is Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Snowflake where he and the team are assisting clients across all industry segments to build new data products, share and exchange data, and monetize data assets through the Snowflake Data Cloud. Todd was an early adopter of Snowflake during his time at PDX. Although Snowflake was just a startup at that point, Todd was blown away by an early demo where Snowflake loaded 2 billion pharmacy claims in 8 minutes. "[Snowflake] just works." Today, Todd oversees a wide variety of Snowflake use cases for Providers, Payers, and Global Pharma. Listen in to hear how Snowflake is transforming the healthcare industry.

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On this week's episode of Hashmap on Tap, Aran Khanna, Co-Founder and CEO at Archera joins host Kelly Kohlleffel to discuss how they are providing big company cloud automation to anyone running in the cloud. Achera delivers an AI-based Cloud Resource Automation Solution that actively manages and de-risks your cloud resources and helps you avoid wasting your cloud dollars. As a Seattle native and growing up in a tech household, Aran considers himself "as cloud-native as they come." Prior to starting Archera, he spent time at AWS and Microsoft Azure and also co-founded Glia Intelligence. Aran started Archera after noticing big corporations that had the software and data teams in place to fully automate all of the cloud management tasks enabled engineers to focus on higher value outcomes. Meanwhile, everyone else was devoting resources to predicting and managing costs and wasting valuable resources on things that should be automated. Archera is helping companies big and small find the best and most affordable cloud resources to fit their needs so they can get back to innovating their product and growing.. Listen in to hear how Aran and his team are saving companies millions, where he sees companies wasting money the most, and his insights into the unique challenges of different public cloud vendors.

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On this week’s episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Tommy Dang. Tommy is Co-Founder and CEO at Mage where they are helping product developers use AI and data to make predictions for use cases such as churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value, and sales forecasting. Prior to Mage, Tommy was in Product and Engineering at Airbnb and also co-founded OnMyBlock. The goal at Mage is to make a product that is super easy and accessible to product developers. Their value comes from empowering current product developers to access and use AI technology by allowing them to build and deploy models rapidly and try out ideas without committing significant time and resources upfront. Listen in to the episode to hear how Mage does it, perspectives on AI/ML, Mage’s GTM strategy, and their plans for the future.

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On this episode, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Rick Lamers and Yannick Perrenet from the Netherlands. Rick and Yannick are co-founders at Orchest, which is an open-source, cloud-native, development environment built to make data pipelining quicker and easier for data scientists. Orchest helps you build data pipelines without frameworks by simply writing your data processing code directly in Python, R, Julia, or Bash. Rick and Yannick met at their university where they both continued to develop their love for computer science. They developed Orchest with data scientists top of mind. While developing Orchest they asked themselves, "How do we let data scientists independently get to production with their workloads that meet the high standards of production work?". They came to a solution that didn't require software engineering skills. Data scientists can execute a simple install and behind the scenes, Orchest builds a Docker container and makes it ready for use inside their cluster. Notebooks are something all data scientists are familiar with, so this is the key interface Orchest uses for interacting and coding. Their goal is to let data scientists focus on the data to analyze and learn from it. The core philosophy of Orchest is to create something that would allow data scientists to use the tools they are familiar with today and bring them into Orchest and continue their workflow, but in an environment that's going to allow them to scale without creating chaos. Everything Rick and Yannick do at Orchest revolves around taking the complexity out for data scientists so that they can continue to deliver more value from data.

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In this episode, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by James Weakley, Co-Founder of Omnata. James and his team are building enterprise integration for the modern data stack. James started Omnata in his spare time while working at NIB, a publicly listed healthcare insurer. NIB introduced Databricks to create predictive modeling which created large data sets. The team quickly faced the issue of storing those 40 million records and being able to access and gain value from that data. Omnata was successfully implemented to solve this challenge as a free app in the Salesforce App Exchange. Since then, James has taken Omnata on full time. They offer an enterprise integration solution with Omnata Connect and a reverse ETL tool with Omnata Push. Listen in to the episode to hear more about how Omnata developed, their GTM strategy, and how James got started from an agriculture technology background.

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Tyler is Senior Manager of Data & Analytics at Waste Management, the #1 integrated environmental solutions company in North America serving nearly 20 million municipal, commercial, industrial, and residential customers. At Waste Management, Tyler leads a team of Digital Technology Professionals providing data that is curated, trusted, and accurate covering numerous areas including their Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Data Governance, plus Data Analytics & Reporting platforms. Listen in and hear how Tyler and the team have managed to deliver significant data products for their customer service initiatives over the last year!

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, Kelly is joined by Ajay Khanna. Ajay is Founder and CEO at Tellius, where they are delivering AI-driven decision intelligence and guided insights. Prior to starting Tellius, Ajay also led Amdocs and Celcite where he and his team launched a real-time, self-optimizing network solution. Listen in to hear how Ajay started Tellius and how they go beyond data analytics to provide the 'what' and 'why' to make easier and better business decisions plus why you need a VC that connects to your vision, the criticality of velocity and speed, and the importance of making new mistakes, not the same old ones.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Omar Khawaja. Omar is Head of Business Intelligence at Roche where he and the team are building data products utilizing modern data principles and a modern data stack. Kelly and Omar get into some exciting data topics like the potential for data mesh along with practical advice for starting each project by making the user's experience around the outcome their focus. Listen in to hear Omar's fascinating story and great perspectives.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by AB Periasamy. AB is Co-Founder and CEO at MinIO, where they are delivering high-performance, S3 compatible multi-cloud object storage that is software-defined, 100% open-source, and native to Kubernetes. Prior to starting MinIO, AB co-founded Gluster which was acquired by RedHat and he’s also an angel investor and advisor to a range of companies including Starburst, H2O.ai, Manetu, Humio, and Yugabyte. AB shares his story, how a culture of collaboration launched him into the open-source space, and provides sound advice to startups from a startup founder and investor.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Suresh Srinivas and Harsha Chintalapani. Suresh and Harsha are the Co-Founders of OpenMetadata, a rapidly growing open source project that defines specifications to standardize metadata with a schema-first approach and a centralized metadata store that integrates with popular systems and services in the data stack to collect, store, and index metadata via API and through a web UI. These two have a wealth of information and experience from their time at Uber, Hortonworks, and Yahoo. Listen in to hear their perspective on the data landscape today and what they're up to at OpenMetadata plus their insights across a range of topics including how architecture is only clean in powerpoints (or google slides), the fact that data "missed the boat" on UX, and their thoughts about how data is a team game.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Peter Fishman. Fish is Co-Founder and CEO at Mozart Data, where they are helping clients go from siloed, messy data to analysis-ready data in a matter of hours. Prior to starting Mozart Data, Fish was Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, founded the Bacon Hot Sauce Company, and spent time at Opendoor, Zenefits, and Yammer. Listen in and hear how Fish went from sports statistics to starting a hot sauce company to starting Mozart Data and some of the practical data lessons he learned along the way.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Manoj Thomas, Sr. Director of IT at Netgear. Manoj leads data teams that are delivering insights across the Netgear ecosystem. The two discuss where Netgear is in their data modernization journey and the technologies in their modern data stack allowing them to get the highest impact and provide their customers with the best experience.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Rashmi Agrawal. Rashmi is Director of Data & Analytics at Oldcastle, a global, industry-leading manufacturer of concrete building and hardscape products with who we've had the pleasure of working with. After starting their journey to the cloud last year, Oldcastle has been building data services and products in AWS using Snowflake and Matillion. Listen in to hear their approach to acquiring data, putting the right design in place, automation perspectives, and how they're tackling other data challenges.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Rohit Choudhary. Rohit is Founder and CEO at Acceldata providing a multi-dimensional data observability cloud that provides compute performance monitoring, manages data reliability, and enables data pipeline observability. Before founding Acceldata, Rohit spent time with Hortonworks as Director of Engineering and founded Appsterix which was acquired by 24/7 iLabs.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Venkat Venkataramani. Venkat is Co-Founder and CEO at Rockset, a real-time analytics database company that serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries at cloud scale. Prior to starting Rockset, Venkat spent 8 years with Facebook where he led the engineering teams that built Facebook's online data systems. 

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Sanjay Joshi. Sanjay is Vice President of Product, and Software and Data Engineering in the healthcare industry. He leads globally dispersed teams to deliver solutions supporting Mail Order and Specialty Pharmacy operations. Sanjay shares with Kelly his thoughts about data management, data security, and cloud data platforms in healthcare. Sanjay's team spearheads Data Engineering and Analytics initiatives that he started from scratch three years ago.

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-See what Hashmap can do in Healthcare: https://www.hashmapinc.com/healthcare

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Arpit Mohan. Arpit is Co-Founder and CTO at Appsmith, an open-source framework designed to quickly build internal tools and custom business software. Appsmith uses pre-built widgets that can be connected to any data source, and everything is controlled with Javascript. Prior to starting at Appsmith, Arpit led engineering teams at cure.fit and a number of other startups.

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Prukalpa is Co-Founder at Atlan, a modern collaborative data workspace that is helping a diverse set of data users in multiple areas including data discovery, data cataloging, data quality and profiling, data lineage and governance, plus some other great capabilities. Prukalpa takes Kelly Kohlleffel through her role at Atlan, the core tenants of a modern collaborative data workspace, what it means to think about data as a product instead of a service, and how prior to Atlan she founded SocialCops.

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Hashmap hosts, Chinmayee Lakkad and David Hrncir take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the past year of Hashmap on Tap episodes. This show is a great way to sample a variety of our podcast episodes with special guests exploring a wide range of data and cloud topics.

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On this week's episode of Hashmap on Tap, Douwe Maan joins host Kelly Kohlleffel to discuss DataOps-driven ELT. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source data integration and transformation platform. Meltano originally began as an internal project within GitLab, but spun out as an independent startup in early 2021 while raising $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV. Today, Meltano has over 5,000 active projects every month and supports data integration connectors for almost 300 sources and destinations. 

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, Anastasia Leng joins host Kelly Kohlleffel to talk about some fascinating marketing perspectives. Anastasia is Founder & CEO at CreativeX, which uses data and AI to help customers like Unilever, Heineken, ING, Facebook, and Pepsi achieve creative excellence at scale. Prior to CreativeX, she founded Hatch.io and spent time at Google and Interbrand doing both Product Marketing and Brand Strategy.

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, we welcome back, Ajay Bidani. Ajay leads digital enablement and insights at Powell Industries which manufacturers a range of electrical, automation, and control monitoring systems and solutions. He continues to build his modern data stack and adjust his approach to data architecture, engineering, and analytics and in this episode, Kelly and Ajay focus in on Data Integration and the recent Fivetran acquisition of HVR and what it means.

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Jyoti Pathak. Jyoti leads the data engineering and analytics organization at TD SYNNEX where they are using the Snowflake Data Cloud to take a modern approach to data and analytics products. Kelly and Jyoti dive into data over a glass of Pinot Grigio and discuss Jyoti's perspectives on their current data landscape, data workload variety, and defining success for data products.

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, we welcome back Kent Graziano to talk Data Mesh and The Data Cloud. Data Mesh is a new approach based on a domain-centric, de-centralized architecture for analytical data management. Kent is Snowflake's Chief Technical Evangelist and the perfect person to talk through the ideas and principles of Data Mesh.

Danielle Beringer is Director of Technical Partnerships at Gretel.ai, an open-source, privacy engineering as a service allowing you to synthesize and transform your data quickly and securely. Gretel just closed a $50M B round and Danielle shares how they are delivering great outcomes with synthetics while reshaping how people are working with sensitive data and PII datasets. Listen in to hear how Gretel is tackling the challenges of data sharing and accessibility to data, and what they are planning for the future. 

On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Andrew Reichman, Director of Market Intelligence with Snowflake. Over local craft beers, they talk about the Snowflake Data Cloud, Snowflake's differentiation, and how they continue to elevate the bar for cloud data platforms.

Swaroop Jagadish, Co-Founder & CTO of Acryl Data, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel to discuss how Acryl Data is bringing more clarity to your data using a next-generation multi-cloud metadata management platform and developer-friendly data catalog powered by LinkedIn DataHub. Swaroop also talks about the fascinating journey that led him to this latest venture. 

Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Erik Jones. Erik leads the BI and analytics organization at Hyperscience where they are enabling organizations to automate data-centric, mission-critical processes using both human and artificial intelligence. They are continuing to build on a modern data stack that includes Snowflake, Fivetran, and dbt (and a few other emerging technologies).

Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Tristan Mayer, Co-Founder and CEO of Castor. Castor is a SaaS solution helping make data more trusted and useable through data discovery - think a Google search for enterprise data. Over coffee, the two discuss how Castor was started, the unique way they approach data discovery and cataloging, and where they are going in this red-hot data world.

Hashmap Cloud & Data Engineers, David Hrncir and Chinmayee Lakkad, give their thoughts on semi-structured data ingestion focusing on automated schema detection and creation. Check out this episode and gain a bit more flexibility with how you approach the data ingestion process and your ever-evolving datasets. 

Born out of customer need, Airbyte connects businesses to their data in an open-source data integration platform. Michel Tricot, Co-Founder and CEO at Airbyte, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, to fill us in on how Airbyte started, how they operate, and their incredible community on Slack. 

Tristan Handy is the Founder and CEO at dbt Labs, a company that pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, and today supports a community of over 16,000 data practitioners committed to changing how data teams work together. Join Tristan and Kelly over a kombucha as they discuss how dbt Labs started, where they are today, and how they built such a large community of data practitioners. 

Oliver Hughes is Co-Founder and CEO at Count, a SQL Notebook that's a combination SQL editor, story-telling notebook, and visualization engine for cloud data platforms. Count is designed to create the best possible workflow across users for SQL analysis. Join Oliver and Kelly over a beer as they discuss how Count started, where they are today, how it fits into a modern data stack, and how companies are benefiting from it.