Insane Data Podcast

Maxime Beauchemin is the creator of Apache Airflow and Apache Superset — two of the most widely used open source tools in data engineering today. Former data engineer at Yahoo, Facebook, Airbnb, and Lyft, and founder of Preset, Maxime has spent two decades at the very foundation of the modern data stack.In this conversation with Giuliano Giannetti, Maxime talks about what happens when the tools you built start to be challenged by the next wave. They go deep on how AI is reshaping data teams, why open source is accelerating, how agents are replacing entire workflows, whether the premise of the data warehouse is crumbling — and what it actually takes to stay relevant in data today. Maxime also shares what he's building next with Agor, a command center for AI agent orchestration.🎙️ Follow Insane Data — because the foundation is shifting, and you'll want to know what's replacing it.