Open||Source||Data

This episode features an interview with Tom Baeyens, Co-founder and CTO of Soda, where he oversees the company's product development, software architecture, and technology strategy. He is passionate about open source and committed to building a community where data engineers can succeed using the Soda Data Monitoring Platform. Tom is the inventor of the widely-used open source project jBPM and Act...

This episode features an interview with Matthew Rocklin, CEO of Coiled, the scalable Dask-based cloud platform. Prior to founding Coiled, Matthew worked on Dask at Anaconda and then NVIDIA where his teams focused on accelerating Dask through parallel computing and GPUs. Matthew is an industry speaker, author, and founding member of Pangeo, whose mission is to develop open source analysis tools for...

This episode features an interview with Nithya Ruff, Head of Open Source Program Office at Amazon. At Amazon, she drives open source culture and coordination and engagement with external communities. Prior to Amazon, Nithya spearheaded and grew Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) for Comcast and Western Digital. She has also served as the Director-At-Large on the Linux Foundation Board since 2016,...

This episode features an interview with Jonathan Beri, Founder & CEO of Golioth, a commercial IoT development platform built for scale. Previously, Jonathan was a Product Manager at Particle, Google/Nest, Magneto, and Myspace where he spent his time building IoT solutions. In this episode, Sam sits down with Jonathan to discuss the concept of digital twins, the future of IoT databases, and how to...

This episode features an interview with Indu Navar, CEO and Founder of EverythingALS, a patient-driven non-profit, bringing technological innovations and data science to support efforts from care to cure, for people with ALS. Indu’s impressive career includes being an original member of the WebMD engineering team, where she was instrumental in using emerging technologies to achieve application sca...

This bonus episode features conversations from season 3 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from DeVaris Brown, CEO & Co-founder of Meroxa; Tomer Shiran, Founder & CPO of Dremio; and Erica Brescia, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures. Sam sat down with each guest to discuss how they’re making data more programmable by shifting left. You can listen to the full episode...

This episode features an interview with Tony Gauda, Head of Customer Engineering at Fleet Device Management, an open core company powered by Osquery. Tony is a serial entrepreneur and inventor with a profound history in fraud, security, and SaaS business. He holds several issued patents and his companies have raised over $40 million in venture funding. Tony is also the founder of ThinAir, a Y-Comb...

This episode features an interview with Beyang Liu, CTO and Co-founder of Sourcegraph, a code intelligence platform. Prior to Sourcegraph, Beyang was a software engineer at Palantir Technologies, where he developed new data analysis software on a customer-facing team working with Fortune 500 companies. Beyang studied Computer Science at Stanford, where he published research in probabilistic graphi...

This episode features an interview with Eric Sammer, CEO of Decodable. Eric has been in the tech industry for over 20 years, holding various roles as an early Cloudera employee. He also was the co-founder and CTO of Rocana, which was acquired by Splunk in 2017. During his time at Splunk, Eric served as the VP and Senior Distinguished Engineer responsible for cloud platform services. In this episod...

Join Open||Source||Data executive producer Audra Montenegro as she and Sam discuss his learnings and takeaways from this season and what the future of open source data looks like. ------------------- “There's such an open conversation about, ‘Yeah, open source,’ we usually think about open source software. How can we cross apply more of what we think about in software in general into data, and the...

This episode features an interview with Sophie Watson, Technical Product Marketing Manager at NVIDIA. Previously, Sophie served as a software engineer and principal data scientist at RedHat where she used machine learning to solve business problems in the hybrid cloud. Sophie has a PhD in Bayesian statistics and frequently speaks about machine learning workflows on Kubernetes, recommendation engin...

This bonus episode features conversations from season 1 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from Margot Gerritsen, Stanford Professor and Co-Founder/Director of WiDS; Rachel Chalmers, Partner at Alchemist Accelerator; and Patricia Boswell, Staff Technical Writer at Google. Sam sat down with each guest to discuss cognition and democratization in data.  You can listen to...

This episode features an interview with Bob van Luijt, CEO and Co-Founder of SeMI Technologies and co-creator of Weaviate, an open source vector search engine.  At just 15 years of age, Bob started his own software company in the Netherlands. He went on to study music at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Berklee College of Music, and completed the Harvard Business School Program of Management Excel...

This episode features an interview with Larry Augustin, angel investor and advisor to early-stage technology companies. Larry previously served as the Vice President for Applications at AWS, where he was responsible for application services like Pinpoint, Chime, and WorkSpaces. Before joining AWS, Larry was the CEO of SugarCRM, an open source CRM vendor. He also was the founder and CEO of VA Linux...

This bonus episode features conversations from season 2 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from Barr Moses, Co-founder and CEO at Monte Carlo; Einat Orr, Co-founder and CEO at Treeverse; and Shinji Kim, Founder and CEO at Select Star. Sam sat down with each guest to discuss data observability.  You can listen to the full episodes from Barr Moses, Einat Orr, and Shinji...

This episode features an interview with Neha Pawar, a Founding Engineer at StarTree. StarTree is a software development company that focuses on democratizing data for all users by providing real-time, user-facing analytics. Prior to her time at StarTree, Neha was a Senior Software Engineer on LinkedIn’s Data Analytics team where she spent five years working on Apache Pinot. Neha has provided count...

This episode features an interview with DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-Founder of Meroxa. Meroxa was founded in 2020 and enables teams of any size and any expertise to build real-time data pipelines in minutes. Previously, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, and Zendesk. Sam and DeVaris even crossed paths at Microsoft in the aughts. In this episode, Sam and DeVaris discuss enabling develop...

This bonus episode features conversations from season 1 and 2 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from Zhamak Dehghani, Director of Emerging Technologies at ThoughtWorks North America; David Thomas, Principal at Deloitte; and Shirshanka Das, Founder of LinkedIn DataHub and Acryl Data. Sam sat down with each guest to discuss data meshes, fabrics, and discovery.  You can...

This episode features an interview with Erica Brescia, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures. At Redpoint, Erica focuses her investing on infrastructure, DevOps, and security. Erica has over 15 years of experience in the open source community and currently serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation. Prior to joining Redpoint, Erica was also an angel investor and advisor to companies...

This bonus episode features conversations from season 1 of the Open||Source||Data podcast. In this episode, you’ll hear from Kelsey Hightower, Principal Engineer at Google Cloud; Lachlan Evenson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure; and Patrick McFadin, Head of Developer Relations at DataStax.  Sam sat down with each guest to discuss Data on Kubernetes and how they’re making progress on a...

This episode features an interview with David Danks, Professor of Data Science and Philosophy and affiliate faculty in Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Prior to UCSD, David was the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.  David’s research interests are at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and mach...

This episode features an interview with Monica Kumar, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Cloud-Go-To Market at Nutanix. Nutanix is a data platform that is redefining workloads in cloud environments. Prior to Nutanix, Monica spent two decades at Oracle where she launched several market solutions.  Monica is passionate about positioning and supporting women in leadership roles. She is a founding...

This episode features an interview with Tomer Shiran, Founder and Chief Product Officer at Dremio. Dremio is a high-performance SQL lakehouse platform that helps companies get more from their data in the fastest way possible. Prior to Dremio, Tomer served as VP of Product at MapR and also held product management and engineering roles at Microsoft and IBM Research. He also has a master’s degree fro...

This episode features an interview with Prukalpa Sankar, Co-Founder of Atlan. Atlan is a venture-backed startup building a modern data workspace. Prukalpa also co-founded SocialCops, a data for good company behind landmark projects such as India’s National Data Platform. Prukalpa is a recognized industry leader, landing on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Fortune’s 40 Under 40. In this episode, Pru...

This episode features an interview with Joseph Jacks, Founder and General Partner of OSS Capital. OSS Capital is the first and only COSS (Commercial Open Source Software) company investor that focuses on supporting early-stage COSS founders. Joseph, also known as JJ, has worked at Mesosphere, TIBCO Software, and Talend in various sales, engineering, and strategy roles. In this episode, JJ and Sam...