In this episode, we speak with Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder of Hightouch, a leading Reverse ETL platform. That syncs data from your warehouse or lake back  into tools your business teams rely on. Top 3 Value Bombs:Organizations should be sending more holistic customer data back into their marketing solutions. Reverse ETL is the process of creating pipelines to extract data from the warehouse/lake and move back into operational components. Utilize CDC when extracting data to minimize the impact...

In this episode, we speak with Christina Stathopoulos who works at Google as an Analytical Lead with Waze, a crowdsourced mobile navigation app. She is also an adjunct professor at IE Business School and guest lecturer at ISDI where she teaches analytics courses in the MBA programs. In this episode we will discuss the current landscape of data, challenges organizations face when becoming data driven, and top reasons AI projects fail. Top 3 Value Bombs: One of the main blockers for...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Mark Tabladillo. Mark is a thought leader in the AI/ML space at Microsoft where he creates technical architectures for artificial intelligence and data science solutions.  Top 3 Value Bombs: Many organizations struggle to understand their current data landscape. Azure Purview can help you manage and govern your data.Technology and best practices are changing rapidly. Even the pros iterate, iterate and iterate when building out new architectures to best meet...

In this episode, we speak with H.O. Maycotte. H.O. is the CEO/founder of Molecula, an enterprise feature store that simplifies, accelerates, and controls big data access to power machine-scale analytics and AI. Molecula is powered by Pilosa, an open source project created by H.O. and team. Pilosa eliminates the need to copy data between systems in order to make it accessible for analytical and machine learning purposes at scale. Leading companies like Spotify, Hulu, Uber, Zillow, ESPN are all...

In this episode, we speak with Raghu Murthy. He is the founder of Datacoral, which provides serverless architectures that support data pipelines and orchestration to facilitate ELT into your Data Warehouse. Prior to founding Datacoral he was at Yahoo, Facebook and was part of the initial team that developed Hive. In this episode we will explore the best patterns for ingesting operational data into your data warehouse, creating metadata first architectures and the role Datacoral serves. Top 3...

In this episode, we speak with Sunu Sasidharan. Sunu is the technology lead at Cuologic where he helps global brands implement large scale architectures, devops automation and data engineering across multiple technology stacks. Top 3 Value Bombs:  When creating distributed databases, you can only achieve two of the following three: consistency, availability, partition tolerance (CAP Theorem)Design data pipelines that support schema evolution. Teams should be able to add new functionality...

 In this episode, we speak with Matt Battifarano. Matt is a data scientist focusing on transportation modeling. He first started his career as a data scientist at a startup called Bridj where they created a smart micro-bus platform for urban transit...

In this episode, we speak with Tarush Aggarwal. Tarush is the founder of 5xdata, where he helps companies build a strong data foundation with self-service BI to enable the business. Prior to starting 5xData he was one of the first data engineers on the...

In today’s episode, we will speak with Peter Voss and discuss the current landscape of AI, the next wave of AI called Artificial General Intelligence, and how organizations today can level up their chatbots to create satisfied customers. Peter Voss is a...

In today’s episode, we will speak with Kapil Surlaker,  the vice president of engineering at LinkedIn. Kapil has been with LinkedIn for over 10 years and has played an instrumental role in shaping the data architecture that LinkedIn is built on top of....

In today’s episode, we will speak with Chris Bergh, a pioneer in the DataOps landscape and the CEO at DataKitchen, a DataOps Platform that Simplifies Complex Data Toolchains and Environments Top 3 Value Bombs:DataOps is not just DevOps for dataAny...

In today’s episode, we will speak with Manny Bernabe and discuss the current landscape of AI, how to get started implementing AI solutions and what organizations should be doing today to set them up AI success in the future. Manny is the founder of...

In today’s episode, we will speak with Susan Walsh and learn why organizations struggle with creating and maintaining high-quality data and the steps she takes to resolve data issues. Susan Walsh has nearly a decade of experience fixing your data and...

In today’s episode, we will speak with Jesse Anderson and learn how to run successful big data projects and how to resource your teams. Jesse is a big data expert at Big Data Institute, who’s worked with startups to Fortune 100 companies. He has taught...

In today’s episode, you will hear from the co-founders of eXate Peter Lancos and Sonal Rattan. eXate streamlines, automates and simplifies the processes of storing, interpreting, and extracting value from data assets. It democratizes data privacy for...

In today's episode you will hear from Doug Laney, a best-selling author and recognized authority on data and analytics strategy. Doug’s book, Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information for Competitive Advantage, was selected by CIO...

In today’s episode, you will hear from Chris Testa-O'Neill, a thought leader in the Microsoft Data and AI space, currently, part of the World Wide Learning team at Microsoft scaling his knowledge to thousands of people through his official Microsoft...

In today’s episode, you will hear from Laura Madsen with 20+ years in data and analytics, authoring books on data governance and healthcare analytics, and co-founded Minneapolis-based consulting firm Via Gurus. Top 3 Value Bombs:Data governance should...

Welcome to the Building the Backend Podcast! We’re a data podcast focused on uncovering the data technologies, processes, and patterns that are driving today’s most successful companies. In this trailer episode, you will get a glimpse of what to expect...