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Hashmap on Tap

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A rotating cast of Hashmap hosts and special guests explore technologies from diverse perspectives while enjoying a drink of choice.

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  1. #134 Becoming Proactive Through Data Activation with Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder at Hightouch

    Tejas Manohar is Co-Founder of Hightouch, a Bay Area-based startup that helps customers sync data over 80 destinations. Hightouch’s goal with data activation is to help companies be proactive about the kinds of business workflows they want to drive based on the data in their warehouse. Listen as...

  2. #133 Connecting the Dots Faster Than Ever with Dr. Victor Lee at TigerGraph

    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...

  3. #132 Protect Privacy by Default with David Besemer, VP of Engineering at Cape Privacy

    David Besemer is the VP of Engineering at Cape Privacy, a New York-based startup delivering technologies that enable organizations to run powerful AI predictions on their most classified and crypted data. David gives us a little more insights into Cape Privacy by sharing their core competencies...

  4. #131 Making Data Dreams Come True with Tomer Shiran, Co-Founder and CPO of Dremio

    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....

  5. #130 Hevo Data - Taking the 'Heave ho' Out of Data Pipelines with Manish Jethani Co-Founder and CEO at Hevo Data

    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...

  6. #129 The Evolution of Data Engineering with Richie Bachala at Yugabyte

    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...

  7. #128 Creating Trust Through Transparency with Maarten Masschelein, Co-Founder and CEO at Soda

    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…

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  8. #127 Elevating Business Reliability with Aayush Jain at cliff.ai

    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…

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  9. #126 Innovation Without Sacrificing Data Privacy with Pim Nauts & Robin Trietsch from STRM Privacy

    Do you ever feel like you're sacrificing innovation for privacy? Pim is Co-Founder and Robin is a Founding Engineer at STRM Privacy, a Dutch startup, where they are delivering privacy-by-design data pipelines from data collection all the way to storage and consumption helping to decrease privacy...

  10. #125 Making Data Transformation Accessible with Armon Petrossian, CEO & Co-Founder at Coalesce

    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...

  11. #124 Taking the Clutter Out of Data with Andrew Ahn, CEO & Founder at Praxi Data

    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...

  12. #123 Keeping Data Quality in Plain View with Kevin Hu, CEO & Co-Founder at Metaplane

    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…

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  13. #122 Women in Data Governance Roundtable with TD SYNNEX, Monte Carlo, & Matillion

    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...

  14. #121 Building Trust by Implementing Data Governance with Sharad Varshney, Co-Founder & CEO at OvalEdge

    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...

  15. #120 Bringing Prefection to the Modern Data Stack with Jeremiah Lowin, CEO & Co-Founder at Prefect

    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…

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  16. #119 Seeing is Believing in Data with Clément Galopin, Co-Founder & CPTO at Octolis

    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,...

  17. #118 Providing a Better (Data) Quality of Life with Todd Crosslin, Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Snowflake

    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…

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  18. #117 Automating Cloud Cost Management with Aran Khanna, Co-Founder and CEO at Archera

    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...

  19. #116 Working "Mage-ic" with Tommy Dang, Co-Founder & CEO at Mage

    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...

  20. #115 Helping Data Scientists Deliver Value Faster with Rick Lamers and Yannick Perrenet, Co-Founders of Orchest

    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…

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  21. #114 Live Query and Reverse ETL for Cloud Data Platforms with James Weakley, Co-Founder of Omnata

    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…

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  22. #113 Building, Growing, and Delivering without a Second to Waste with Tyler Wheatley, Senior Manager of Data & Analytics at Waste Management

    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...

  23. #112 Delivering Decision Intelligence Based on the 'Why' with Ajay Khanna, Founder and CEO at Tellius

    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,...

  24. #111 Everything Starts with Coffee and Outcomes in Mind with Omar Khawaja from Roche

    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...

  25. #110 The Hotel California (Without Strings) of Startups with AB Periasamy, Co-Founder and CEO of MinIO

    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…

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  26. #109 Opening New Data Doors in The Open Source World with Suresh Srinivas and Harsha Chintalapani, Co-Founders of OpenMetadata

    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...

  27. #108 Composing Organized Data with Peter Fishman, Co-Founder and CEO at Mozart Data

    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...

  28. #107 Having the Right Gear to Deal with Data with Manoj Thomas, Director of IT at Netgear

    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...

  29. #106 Discovering New Value From Your Data with Rashmi Agrawal, Director of Data & Analytics at Oldcastle

    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...

  30. #105 Helping Navigate the Complex Data Ecosystem with Rohit Choudhary, Founder & CEO at Acceldata

    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.…

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  31. #104 Making Real Time a Reality with Venkat Venkataramani, Co-Founder and CEO at Rockset

    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...

  32. #103 Using Data for Impact in Healthcare with Sanjay Joshi

    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....

  33. #102 Building Internal Tools to Drive Success with Arpit Mohan, Co-Founder & CTO at Appsmith

    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...

  34. #101 Core Tenets of a Modern Data Workspace with Prukalpa, Atlan Co-Founder

    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...

  35. #100 Hashmap on Tap 2021 Flight: A Sampling of our Favorite Podcast Moments

    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. Clip…

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  36. #99 Building a Community Around DataOps-driven ELT with Douwe Maan, Founder and CEO of Meltano

    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...

  37. #98 Achieve Creative Excellence with Anastasia Leng, Founder and CEO at CreativeX

    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...

  38. #97 Data Integration, Fivetran, and HVR at Powell Industries with Ajay Bidani

    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...

  39. #96 Building Data Products in the Snowflake Data Cloud with Jyoti Pathak from TD SYNNEX

    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…

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  40. #95 What in the World is Data Mesh? Uncovering the Secrets with Snowflake's Kent Graziano

    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...

  41. #94 Data Accessibility & Privacy Engineering with Danielle Beringer of Gretel.ai

    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...

  42. #93 Perspectives on the Snowflake Data Cloud with Andrew Reichman

    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....

  43. #92 Data Catalogs, Metadata Management, and LinkedIn DataHub with Swaroop Jagadish, Co-Founder & CTO Acryl Data

    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...

  44. #91 How to be Data Driven When the Data Isn’t There: Leaders from Arlo, OldCastle, & WW International Share Real-Life Lessons

    Hashmap recently sponsored a special session at the Modern Data Stack Conference (MDSCON) organized by Fivetran. Just in case you missed this panel discussion, we created a podcast episode version! Join data leaders from Arlo, OldCastle, WW International, and Hashmap as they tackle the challenges...

  45. #90 Lessons Learned in Building a Modern Data Stack with Erik Jones from Hyperscience

    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...

  46. #89 Perspectives on Data Value and Data Catalogs with Castor Co-Founder & CEO, Tristan Mayer

    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…

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  47. #88 Leaning In On Semi-Structured Data with Chinmayee & David

    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...

  48. #87 All About Airbyte with Michel Tricot, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbyte

    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...

  49. #86 The Power of Community and Analytics Engineering with Tristan Handy, Founder & CEO of dbt Labs

    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…

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  50. #85 Developing in SQL with Count, a Next-gen SQL Notebook, with Oliver Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO

    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...

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