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Chris Tynan  lives in London (the UK) and works as a Director of Data at DistroKid. Before joining DistroKid, Chris had been working at intersection of music, data and tech at Utopia Music and Spotify, as well as as a Lead Data Scientist in the UK Government Administration. DistroKid is is the world’s largest music distributor to Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube and all major st...

What's data management? How does it relate to data governance, data observability, and other similar terms? In this episode, we'll try to lay out what you should know about modern data management and how you and your organization could get involved in this topic. Topics that the podcast includes: What Data Management is? How does it relate to data governance, data observability, and other similar...

Agnieszka Bomersbach  lives in Uppsala (Sweden) and works as a Staff Data Engineer at Pleo. Before joining Pleo, Agnieszka had been working at Acast and Skyscanner and she has graduated from the University of Edinburgh with Masters in Artificial Intelligence. Pleo is a fintech scaleup from Denmark that builds is a cloud-based solution for managing company spending and automating expense repor...

Kacper Łodzikowski  lives in Poznań (Poland) and works as the Vice President of AI Learning Capabilities at Pearson. Kacper is also a researcher & lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Pearson the world's leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. The group's remit...

Dainius Kniuksta  lives in Copenhagen (Denmark) and works as a Artificial Intelligence Product Lead at Forecast. Dainius is a tech enthusiast with more than 15 years of digital product and platform management, strategy, development, team leadership, and PSA / log-tech / ad-tech focused Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning experience in global companies like Maersk, Adform, and Sermo....

Ola Sars lives in Stockholm in Sweden and he is a successful serial music tech entrepreneur. He is the founder, CEO & chairman of Soundtrack Your Brand. Previously he started a number of successful business is the music/audio industry including e.g. Beats Music Beats by Dr. Dre. Soundtrack Your Brand is a company that offers a cloud-based music streaming platform designed specifically for busi...

Jakub Janicki lives in Frankfurt (Germany) and works as Vice president | Big Data & Advanced Analytics at Commerzbank. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, especially in using data & analytics at banks. Before joining Commerzbank in 2019, he had been working at mBank and Alior Bank. Topics that we talk about: How banks use data & analytics Types of data that ba...

Varun Bhatnagar works as a Lead Designer in DevOps and MLOps area in the Group Business Intelligence value stream at Swedbank. Before joining Swedbank, Varun had been working with designing effective solutions for cloud deployment and possesses in-depth knowledge of implementing core DevOps concepts such as containerization, virtualization, version control, cloud computing, database management &am...

Yetunde Data and Ivan Danov both live in London, work at QuantumBlack , and develop Kedro which is an open-source MLOps project. Yetunde works as a Director of Product Management, while Ivan works as a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer and the Engineering Director of Kedro. QuantumBlack, a McKinsey company is a data science and advanced analytics company that works with customers from var...

Ludwig Holmstrom works as a Product Analytics Director at Mentimeter . Before joining Mentimeter, he had been working with data & analytics for more than a decade at various companies such as Kry, Spotify, and Google. Mentimeter is a Swedish company that builds an interactive audience engagement platform. The platform allows users to create and conduct real-time polls, quizzes, and surveys. It...

Jonas Björk works as the CTO at Acast . Before joining Acast around 5 years ago, Jonas had been working with data, analytics, and ML at Spotify, BizOne, and Ericsson. Acast is a Swedish-founded podcast hosting and monetization platform that allows creators to distribute their podcasts to multiple podcast apps such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, and to monetize their content throu...

Liudmyla Taranenko works as the Head of Data Science at Metadata.io. Metadata.io builds a product for B2B marketers that automates many manual and repetitive tasks. By taking care of tasks like running paid campaigns, personalizing web experiences, and optimizing everything for revenue, Metadata.io frees up time for marketers to focus on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue. Topics that we ta...

If you hear that your company should be data-driven, but you are not sure what does it mean in practice, in this episodes we share two stories of data driven companies. Both of them are the examples of data literate companies from different prospectives. In the fist story you can learn how the big tech company were allowed to detect problem and start solving the right one. The second one, how e-co...

Henrik Feldt is the founder, CEO and CTO of Causiq. He previously worked as a cloud or system architect at companies such as VOI Technology or Tradera. Causiq is a marketing analytics company. It builds a product that utilizes ML to give enterprises a comprehensive understanding of the efficiency of their marketing channels. This allows them to identify ROI for each marketing channel daily (or nea...

Kevin Goldsmith works as a CTO at Anaconda , and he had previously worked in various roles at several companies e.g. CTO at Onfido and Avvo, as well as VP of Engineering at Spotify. He is also a Board Member and Advisor at several companies. Anaconda is the most popular open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for data science that aims to simplify package management and...

Michał Wróbel works as a senior data engineer at RenoFi and has over 7 years of experience in data engineering and building data platforms. RenoFi is a U.S.-based FinTech that uses the after-renovation value instead of your home's current value, enabling you to borrow the most money at the lowest rates. Topics that we talk about: What RenoFi is, who uses it and why Data that is used at RenoFi Busi...

Arunabh Singh lives in Stockholm in Sweden and he works as a director of data science at Willa . Willa is a Sweden and U.S.-based FinTech that helps professional freelancers, influencers, and social media content creators get paid immediately by brands for their freelance work and paid collaborations. The company’s founders are former early members of Spotify’s growth team. Topics that we talk abo...

Alessandro Romano lives in Hamburg in Germany and he works as a data scientist at FREE NOW . FREE NOW is Europe's largest multi-mobility app where you book a taxi, electric scooter, electric bike, and other vehicles. Topics that we talk about: What FREE NOW is, who uses it and why Alessandro joined it as a data scientist Data, techniques, signals, and KPIs used to develop the dynamic pricing ML mo...

This time our episode title is "Future-Aware Data Engineer". It is the story of past and current inventions like Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg vs airplane by the Wright brothers. What is the Dunning-Krueger effect and what does it have in common with Wikipedia? Why did Jacek Kuroń not have to pay his phone bills? We're going to look at the inventions through the lens of Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kah...

Wouter de Bie lives in New Orleans and he has been working with big data for around 12 years! Wouter comes from the Netherlands, but he has spent most of his time working with data in Sweden and USA where he worked at Delta Projects, Spotify, The New York Times, and now as a Director Of Engineering at Datadog . Topics that we talk about: What Datadog is, who uses it, what data it collects, and how...

In this episode, we analyze changes and trends that resulted in the creation of so-called Modern Data Platforms. This includes e.g. adoption of best practices from the software development domain (e.g. dbt), the shift from ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) to ELT (Extract-Load-Transform) paradigm, serverless databases (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Athena), public cloud, and support for SQL everywhere. Thi...

Max Schultze lives in Berlin and he works as a data engineering manager at Zalando. Zalando is one of the largest European online retailers of shoes, fashion, and beauty. We talk with Max about how they use data and analytics at Zalando, and how their data platform has evolved during the last few years, however, the most important topic of our conversation is Data Mesh - what it is, what it is NOT...

I describe 5 trends in the data and AI landscape that we see in our daily work at GetInData and as a part of the data community (e.g. Big Data Tech Warsaw conference co-organizers). Retail becomes a very hot sector for AI/ML (plus new data sources, Metaverse, MLOps, Responsible AI) Modern Data Platforms (plus SQL, hiring, open-source, data engineering pipelines) Public Cloud (plus data residency,...

Sergiy Tkachuk lives in Warsaw in Poland and he works as a Data Science Manager at Reckitt. Reckitt is a British multinational consumer goods company that produces a number of well-known health, hygiene, and nutrition products such as Vanish, Calgon, and Air Wick. We talk with Sergey about how he and his company uses data, cloud, analytics, and AI/ML in the retail and FMCG industry. Data scie...

Simona works as a senior data engineer at Aidoc. Aidoc is an Israeli healthcare technology company that develops AI solutions to analyze medical images so that physicians can expedite patient treatment and enhance efficiencies. We talk with Simona about two topics. The first of them is working as a data engineer with complex & unstructured data such as medical images at Aidoc and the second is...