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Datacast

134 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

Datacast follows the narrative journey of founders, operators, and investors in the data and AI infrastructure space to unpack the careers that they have built. James Le hosts the show.

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Episode 133: Full Data Stack Observability with Salma Bakouk

February 21, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB

Show Notes (01:41) Salma reflected on her upbringing in Paris (France) and her love for math since a young age. (04:05) Salma talked about her decision to dive deeper into statistics. (07:39) Salma recalled her 5 years in investment banking in Hong Kong. (10:44) Salma doubled down on the cultivation of her resilience during this period. (13:45) Salma shared the founding story Sifflet. (15:53) Salma touched on her co-founder dynamics with Wajdi Fathallah and Wissem Fathallah. (18:50) S...

Episode 132: Big Data Engineering, Data Culture from First Principles, and Reimagined Metadata with Suresh Srinivas

February 09, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MB

Show Notes (01:53) Suresh went over his college experience studying Electronics Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. (04:35) Suresh recalled his 9-year engineering career at Sylantro Systems. (08:47) Suresh talked about the origin of Apache Hadoop at Yahoo. (11:05) Suresh dissected the high-level design architecture of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). (15:36) Suresh reflected on his decision to become a co-founder of Hortonworks, which focused on brin...

Episode 131: Data Infrastructure for Consumer Platforms, Algorithmic Governance, and Responsible AI with Krishna Gade

January 11, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MB

Show Notes (02:20) Krishna described his academic experience getting an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota - where he developed efficient tools for text document clustering and pattern discovery. (05:36) Krishna recalled his 5.5 years at Microsoft working on Bing's search engine. (08:32) Krishna talked about the challenges of competing against Google Search. (10:22) Krishna shared the high-level technical and operational challenges encountered during the development ...

Episode 130: Towards Accessible Data Analysis with Emanuel Zgraggen

November 21, 2023 16:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB

Show Notes (01:59) Emanuel reflected on his upbringing in Switzerland and his 4-year apprenticeship in Software Engineering and Business at Credit Suisse. (06:09) Emanuel recalled his 4-year program in Computer Science at HSR (University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil). (08:43) Emanuel touched on his decision to pursue a Master’s degree at Brown University in the US. (11:58) Emanuel explained his decision to continue with a Ph.D. degree at Brown under the advisement of Professor Andy van...

Episode 129: Early-Stage Product Management, Product-Led Revenue, and Startup Monologues with Diana Hsieh

November 16, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB

Timestamps (01:41) Diana shared her upbringing in Orlando and her undergraduate experience studying Economics at MIT. (03:27) Diana reflected on valuable lessons from her internships during college. (05:58) Diana brought up her learning during the year working as an investment banking analyst in the technology group at Morgan Stanley. (09:10) Diana recalled her transition from investment banking into venture capital at Norwest Venture Partners. (11:52) Diana discussed the takeaways from...

Episode 128: Building Trust with Founders, VC Funding For The Cloud, and The Next Platform For Data Apps with Jason Risch

October 28, 2023 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MB

Timestamps (01:45) Jason shared the formative experiences of his upbringing in the Bay Area and coming of age in the “Moneyball” era of baseball. (05:03) Jason described his overall academic experience at Stanford - where he studied Mathematical and Computational Science with a minor in Classical Studies. (09:15) Jason reflected on his experience participating in the Mayfield Fellowship at Stanford. (12:03) Jason recalled his time being a part of the business operations team during a hig...

Episode 127: Data Intelligence for Insurance Transformation with Heather Wentworth

October 08, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

Show Notes (01:44) Heather talked about her upbringing, her education, and her 14-year career at Liberty Mutual Insurance. (06:50) Heather emphasized the benefits of her education in organizational design and management. (08:56) Heather walked through her decision to shift from underwriting to technology and data at Liberty. (13:55) Heather commented on her 5 years as a product manager at Crum & Forster. (20:14) Heather described her 2-year experience as the Global Head of Technology at...

Episode 126: Vector Search Engine, Building An Open-Source Business, and Digital Technology Through The Lens of Language with Bob Van Luijt

September 13, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MB

Show Notes (01:36) Bob shared formative experiences of his upbringing with exposure to technology. (05:08) Bob discussed his time building software for fun as a teenager. (07:08) Bob reflected on his education in music and his decision to transition to a career in software development. (10:52) Bob explained his project control(human, data, sound) while working on his consultancy agency Kubrickology. (14:25) Bob discussed how using software can enhance our creativity. (17:28) Bob talked...

Episode 125: The Next Wave of Developer Platforms, Data Products, and Software Infrastructure with Sakib Dadi

September 03, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

Show Notes (01:40) Sakib shared formative experiences of his upbringing in SoCal and his undergraduate experience at the University of Pennsylvania. (05:24) Sakib recalled his favorite classes at Penn. (07:55) Sakib reflected on his internship experience at Innova Dynamics and Morgan Stanley. (11:04) Sakib reflected on his decision to pursue a career in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners. (14:02) Sakib walked through his process of proving value as a new investor. (16:21) Sak...

Episode 124: The Open-Source Cloud Playbook, The Modular Future of Data and AI Infrastructure, and Meta-Learning as a VC with Casber Wang

August 30, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MB

Show Notes (01:56) Casber reflected on his experience growing up in China and moving to the US to pursue an undergraduate degree in business at UC Berkeley. (04:45) Casber recalled working on his startup Etch.ai and interning at Wish during his time at Berkeley. (10:03) Casber differentiated investing patterns for B2B and B2C startups. (12:10) Casber reflected on his investment banking experience at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and transitioning to venture capital at Sapphire Ventures. ...

Episode 123: AI Monitoring, Product-Oriented Data Science, and the Israeli ML community with Itai Bar Sinai

August 17, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB

Show Notes (01:46) Itai reflected on his education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, studying Math and Computer Science. (04:18) Itai walked through his time as a software engineer at Google working in Google Trends. (06:56) Itai emphasized the importance of a software checklist within Google's engineering culture. (08:55) Itai explained how he became fascinated with AI/ML engineering. (10:31) Itai touched on his period working as an AI consultant. (13:28) Itai talked about his si...

Episode 122: The Evolution of Data Visualization, Scaling Data Culture, and The Future of Data Transformation with Gabi Steele

July 31, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB

Show Notes (01:33) Gabi shared her professional interests growing up - from painting and drawing to graphic design. (04:44) Gabi touched on her entrance to the field of data visualization. (06:30) Gabi described her graduate school experience studying Data Visualization at Parsons School of Design. (08:50) Gabi talked about the benefits of teaching data visualization classes later in her career. (12:30) Gabi recalled working as a Data Visualization specialist at The Washington Post. (1...

Episode 121: High-Performance Processing Engine, Modern Data Streaming, and Propelling Minority in Tech with Alex Gallego

July 14, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MB

Show Notes (01:55) Alex reflected on his upbringing as an immigrant moving from Colombia to the US at 14. (07:06) Alex recalled his undergraduate experience at NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering. where he study Computer Science and do research in cryptography. (16:40) Alex went over his first job working as a software engineer at FactSet Research System. (20:13) Alex walked through his time as the first employee and the first engineer at YieldMo. (24:30) Alex talked about his hirin...

Episode 120: Next-Generation Experimentation, Statistics Engineering, and The Modern Growth Stack with Chetan Sharma

June 24, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB

Show Notes (01:44) Chetan reflected on his undergraduate experience at Stanford studying Electrical Engineering and Statistics back in the late 2000s. (06:10) Chetan recalled his experience interning at IBM and Quantcast and doing research at Stanford Center for Minds, Brain, and Computation. (08:41) Chetan talked about his first job working as a research analyst focused on healthcare policy at Acumen. (11:15) Chetan walked through his decision to join Airbnb as their 4th data scientist ...

Episode 119: Experimentation Culture, Immutable Data Warehouse, The Data Collaboration Problem, and The Rise of Data Contracts with Chad Sanderson

June 16, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MB

Show Notes (01:38) Chad reflected on his early career as a freelance journalist working in Southeast Asia. (04:27) Chad explained the benefits of writing for anyone working in a technical field. (06:15) Chad touched on his entrance to data analytics through Conversion Rate Optimization. (09:06) Chad walked through his decision to dive deep into the field of experimentation. (13:28) Chad recalled how he spent time learning the basics of statistics. (15:32) Chad discussed the differences...

Episode 118: Overcoming Hardships, Confident Learning, Dataset Improvement, and The Ph.D. Rapper with Curtis Northcutt

June 09, 2023 16:30 - 1 hour - 98.9 MB

Show Notes (01:56) Curtis reflected on his upbringing in rural Kentucky and his gift of education. (07:20) Curtis explained how he cultivated mental focus and intellectual fortitude while growing up in Kentucky. (10:30) Curtis shared his view regarding online misinformation on social media. (14:27) Curtis recalled his undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt University in the early 2010s. (22:39) Curtis explained how he learned best via teaching and mentoring. (24:04) Curtis walked throu...

Episode 117: Vector Databases, The Embeddings Revolution, and Working in China with Frank Liu

May 29, 2023 03:30 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Show Notes (01:41) Frank shared formative experiences of his upbringing moving from China to the US. (04:45) Frank described his overall academic experience at Stanford, studying Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. (08:41) Frank talked about his research and industry experience while at Stanford. (11:34) Frank shared his proudest accomplishments working at Yahoo as a research engineer in the Vision and Machine Learning group. (16:37) Frank went over his experience c...

Episode 116: Distributed Databases, Open-Source Standards, and Streaming Data Lakehouse with Vinoth Chandar

May 12, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Show Notes (01:58) Vinoth shared his college experience studying IT at the Madras Institute of Technology in Chennai, India. (07:09) Vinoth reflected on his time at UT Austin, getting a Master's degree in Computer Science - where he did research on high-bandwidth content distribution and large-scale parallel processing with shell pipes. (11:20) Vinoth recalled his two years as a software engineer at Oracle, working on their database replication engine, HPC, and stream processing. (15:30)...

Episode 115: Product-Led Sales, Community-Led Category Creation, and Unlocking Revenue Data with Alexa Grabell

May 02, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

Show Notes (01:55) Alexa shared formative experiences of her upbringing in Philadelphia. (03:47) Alexa reflected on her undergraduate experience at Vanderbilt studying Engineering Science. (05:49) Alexa recalled her first job out of college in management consulting at KPMG. (08:20) Alexa walked over her transition from consulting to technology when she joined the Sales Operations team at Dataminr. (12:35) Alexa talked about her proudest accomplishments at Dataminr - seeding the initial ...

Episode 114: Building Data Products and Unlocking Data Insights with Carlos Aguilar

April 19, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

Show Notes (02:06) Carlos shared formative experiences of his upbringing tinkering with robots and websites. (04:03) Carlos reflected on his education, studying Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. (05:34) Carlos discussed the technical details of his research on machine learning applications in robotics and art. (10:11) Carlos explained his work as a robotic system analyst at Kiva Systems. (15:41) Carlos discussed building his first data product at Kiva. (20:24)...

Episode 113: Data Applications, Real-Time Analytics, and Cloud Product Management with Shruti Bhat

April 12, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

Show Notes (01:49) Shruti shared her upbringing in India - where she studied Engineering and Computer Science in the early 2000s. (03:11) Shruti reflected on her early career as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard and IBM. (07:29) Shruti recalled the early days of cloud computing. (09:01) Shruti reflected on her time pursuing an MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management. (11:55) Shruti explained her shift from software engineering to product management. (14:19) Shruti revisited her ...

Episode 112: Distributed Systems Research, The Philosophy of Computational Complexity, and Modern Streaming Database with Arjun Narayan

April 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 100 MB

Show Notes (01:18) Arjun shared formative experiences of his upbringing - growing up in Bangalore, India; going to UWC Mahindra College for high school; and pursuing a liberal arts education in the US. (04:45) Arjun described his overall academic experience at Willams College - where he studied Computer Science and Economics and did a one-year stint at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge. (11:19) Arjun talked about his specialization within academic computer science: distribut...

Episode 111: Astrophysics, Visualization Recommendation, and Scalable Data Science with Doris Lee

March 24, 2023 05:30 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MB

Show Notes (01:30) Doris walked through her time doing research in physics and astrophysics at UC Berkeley and getting involved with data science. (04:11) Doris reflected on her decision to pursue the Ph.D. program in computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (05:53) Doris discussed her development of no-code, interactive visualization interfaces accelerating users toward data insight discovery. (10:37) Doris explained how the RISE Lab and I School at UC Berkeley ...

Episode 110: Wisdom in Building Data Infrastructure, Lessons From Open-Source Development, The Missing README, and The Future of Data Engineering with Chris Riccomini

March 14, 2023 16:00 - 2 hours - 116 MB

Show Notes (01:47) Chris reflected on his educational experience at Santa Clara University in the mid-2000s, where he also interned at NeoMagic and Intacct Corporation. (07:31) Chris recalled valuable lessons from his first job as a software engineer at PayPal, researching new fraud prevention techniques. (11:28) Chris shared the technical and operational challenges associated with his work at LinkedIn as a data scientist - scaling LinkedIn's Hadoop cluster, improving LinkedIn's "People Y...

Episode 109: Developer Productivity, Real-Time Data Infrastructure, and The Fat-Tailed Nature of Enterprise Software with Nnamdi Iregbulem

February 21, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 69 MB

Show Notes (01:32) Nnamdi shared formative experiences of his upbringing, where he spent countless hours building computers, coding up websites, and finding ways to game Google search. (04:54) Nnamdi described his undergraduate experience studying Economics at Yale University and interning at McKinsey and J.P. Morgan. (08:10) Nnamdi reflected on the decline of the investment banking industry - given his one year working for the technology, media, and telecommunications group at J.P. Morga...

Episode 108: Computer Vision, Product Management, and Enterprise Investing with Tom Rikert

February 16, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB

Show Notes (02:00) Tom shared formative experiences of his upbringing. (04:17) Tom described his educational experience at MIT and his research thesis in Computer Vision. (07:08) Tom talked about his interest in computer vision and computational neuroscience. (08:38) Tom recalled lessons from his first job out of school as a software engineer at Silicon Graphics, building high-performance visualization systems. (11:32) Tom reflected on his time as a product lead at Autodesk, launching a...

Episode 107: Investing At The Nexus of Computational Sciences with Grace Isford

February 10, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB

Show Notes (02:02) Grace shared formative experiences of her upbringing - being heavily influenced by the financial sector from growing up near New York and getting an appreciation for diverse perspectives from studying abroad in Tokyo. (03:47) Grace described her college experience at Stanford studying Management Science and Engineering. (08:04) Grace talked about her participation in the Mayfield Fellowship and her service as a Co-President of Stanford Women in Business. (12:34) Grace ...

Episode 106: Advancing AI Adoption with Dânia Meira

January 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MB

Show Notes (01:32) Dânia shared her upbringing in Brazil and her college experience studying Applied Mathematics at the University of Campinas. (05:58) Dânia touched on her early career working in marketing intelligence in Brazil. (10:38) Dânia described her thesis on scalable implementations of the Alternating Least Squares algorithm for Collaborative Filtering recommendation, conducted during her Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Fluminense. (16:10) Dânia recal...

Episode 105: Building The Next-Generation Spreadsheet, Being A Curious Analyst, and Engineering Entrepreneurship with Bobby Pinero

December 20, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

Show Notes (01:33) Bobby shared his upbringing in DC and high-school experience at St. Albans School. (04:10) Bobby described his academic experience at Stanford studying Management Science and Engineering. (07:39) Bobby recalled valuable career lessons learned working as a Finance Analyst at IBM and Inflection. (09:56) Bobby reflected on his rationale for joining Intercom as one of the company's early employees right after its Series A financing in 2013. (14:16) Bobby unpacked his 2016...

Episode 104: Streamlining Machine Learning In Production with Ran Romano

December 09, 2022 01:00 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MB

Show Notes (01:34) Ran reflected on his time working as a Technical Product Manager at the Israeli Intelligence army. (04:07) Ran recalled his favorite classes on Machine Learning and Computer Graphics during his education in Computer Science at Reichman University. (05:24) Ran talked about a valuable lesson learned as a Software Engineer at VMware's Cloud Provider Software Business Unit. (08:07) Ran shared his thoughts on how engineers could be more impactful in startup organizations. ...

Episode 103: Computational Economics, Statistical Arbitrage, and Adaptable Data Consolidation with Eric Daimler

November 28, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB

Show Notes (02:15) Eric reflected on his early interest in computer science and his decision to study at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 90s. (05:40) Eric recalled his academic and overall college experience, emphasizing the importance of the people he was surrounded with. (08:22) Eric talked about his time working as a quant analyst early in his career, the moment he encountered the birth of the Mosaic browser, and his decision to join the tech industry. (13:01) Eric imparted wi...

Episode 102: Early-Stage Investing, Modern Venture Capital, and Trends in Enterprise Infrastructure with Astasia Myers

November 23, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

Show Notes (01:56) Astasia shared her childhood growing up in Silicon Valley. (05:12) Astasia reflected on her undergraduate education at Stanford - studying Political Science and International Relations. (06:35) Astasia discussed her research at the Graduate Business School with Professor Condoleezza Rice on a case study called "San Leon Energy: Hydraulic Fracturing in Poland" - which explores how to manage the political risks of using a controversial energy extraction technology in the ...

Episode 101: Scaling Data Engineering, Building Data Teams, and Managed Data Stack with Tarush Aggarwal

November 07, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MB

Show Notes (02:24) Tarush shared his upbringing in India and his decision to study abroad in the US. (03:51) Tarush walked through his college experience studying Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. (06:24) Tarush described the non-existent state of data infrastructure at Salesforce when he joined as the first data engineer in 2012. (11:21) Tarush went over his contribution to the automation and benchmarking frameworks over his tenure at Salesforce. (15:50) Tarush recall...

Episode 100: Data-Centric Computer Vision, Productizing AI, and Scaling a Global Startup with Hyun Kim

October 28, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Show Notes (01:59) Hyun shared his upbringing and experience living in Korea, Singapore, and the US. (04:18) Hyun described his undergraduate experience at Duke University. (08:21) Hyun shared how he got a real taste of the game-changing potential of deep learning from the experience of bringing ML to diagnose Parkinson’s disease with brain MRI scans. (10:54) Hyun talked about his journey of leveling up coding and ML knowledge. (12:13) Hyun reflected on his motivation to pursue a Ph.D. ...

Episode 99: Data Mobility, Enterprise GTM, and Tech Leadership with Gary Hagmueller

August 30, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

Show Notes (01:45) Gary walked through his academic experience getting a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Arizona State University and an MBA in Finance at USC — Marshall School of Business. (04:52) Gary recalled the most valuable lesson from leading a business development team in the enterprise offerings group at Verizon. (07:45) Gary recalled the challenges of bringing a company public during his time as the Director of Corporate Development at NorthPoint Communications. ...

Episode 98: Building Developer Tools, Managing Platform Products, Fostering Diversity, and Enabling Real-Time Data Applications with DeVaris Brown

August 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 89 MB

Show Notes (01:43) DeVaris reflected on his upbringing on the south side of Chicago and college experience at UIUC, studying Mathematics and Computer Science in the early 2000s. (06:46) DeVaris shared his journey of learning how to program, make computers, and dive into the Internet. (09:35) DeVaris recalled valuable lessons from interning at Intel and Cisco Systems. (15:49) DeVaris shared his proudest accomplishments during his five years at Microsoft — first as a system engineer and th...

Episode 97: Escaping Poverty, Embracing Digital Learning, Benchmarking ML Systems, and Advancing Data-Centric AI with Cody Coleman

August 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB

Show Notes (01:49) Cody shared his upbringing in New Jersey, his childhood interest in science and technology, and the few people who have made big differences in his story. (09:35) Cody went over his academic experience studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. (17:51) Cody recalled his favorite classes taken at MIT. (22:43) Cody talked about his engagement in serving as the president of MIT’s chapter of Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society and advancing online education at the...

Episode 96: Data Science Training and The Power of Education with Merav Yuravlivker

July 14, 2022 20:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB

Show Notes (02:18) Merav talked about her undergraduate experience at McGill University studying Psychology and Sociology. (04:33) Merav discussed important attributes of an exceptional teacher given her two years teaching elementary special education in NYC public schools through the Teach For America program. (08:19) Merav commented on her time working at the International Baccalaureate Organization and working as a Kaplan GRE instructor. (10:57) Merav shared the backstory behind the f...

Episode 95: Open-Source DataOps, Building In Public, and Remote Work Culture with Douwe Maan

July 01, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB

Show Notes (01:46) Douwe went over formative experiences catching the programming virus at the age of 9, combining high school with freelance web development, and studying Computer Science at Utrecht University in college. (03:55) Douwe shared the story behind founding a startup called Stinngo, which led him to join GitLab in 2015 as employee number 10. (05:29) Douwe provided insights on attributes of exceptional engineering talent, given his time hiring developers and eventually becoming...

Episode 94: Modern Metadata Management, Open-Source Adoption, and Early-Stage Culture with Mars Lan

June 20, 2022 03:30 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Show Notes (01:41) Mars walked through his education studying Computer Systems Engineering at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. (03:16) Mars reflected on his overall Ph.D. experience in Computer Science at UCLA. (05:55) Mars discussed his early research paper on a robust and scalable lane departure warning system for smartphones. (07:13) Mars described his work on SmartFall, an automatic fall detection system to help prevent the elderly from falling. (08:34) Mars explained his ...

Episode 93: Open-Source Development, Human-Centric AI, and Modern ML Infrastructure with Ville Tuulos

June 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Show Notes (01:35) Ville recalled his education getting degrees in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki in Finland. (04:35) Ville walked over his time working at a startup called Gurusoft that planned to commercialize self-organizing maps, a peculiar artificial neural network. (07:17) Ville reflected on his four years as a researcher at Nokia — working on big data infrastructure, analytics, and ML open-source projects (such as Disco and Ringo). (11:56) Ville shared the story ...

Episode 92: Analytics Engineering, Locally Optimistic, and Marketing-Mix Modeling with Michael Kaminsky

May 29, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

Show Notes (01:48) Mike recalled his undergraduate experience studying Economics at Arizona State University and doing research on statistics/econometrics. (04:59) Mike reflected on his three years working as an analyst in the Boston office of the Analysis Group. (09:08) Mike discussed how he leveled up his programming skills at work. (11:05) Mike shared his learnings about building effective data-driven products while working as a data scientist at Case Commons. (17:20) Mike revisited ...

Episode 91: Collaborative Data Workspace, The Sharing Gap, and Engineering Management with Caitlin Colgrove

May 13, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB

Show Notes (01:37) Caitlin went over her college experience studying Computer Science at Stanford University in the early 2010s. (03:55) Caitlin talked about her teaching experience for CS 106A and CS 103. (07:09) Caitlin shared valuable lessons from completing software engineering internships at Harvard University, Facebook, and Palantir. (10:06) Caitlin walked over technical and organizational challenges during her time at Palantir — building products for both government/commercial cus...

Episode 90: Operational Analytics, Reverse ETL, and Finding Product-Market Fit with Kashish Gupta

May 03, 2022 03:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB

Show Notes (00:43) Kashish shared briefly about his upbringing in Atlanta and his early interest in STEM subjects. (02:38) Kashish described his overall academic experience studying Economics, Management, and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. (05:53) Kashish walked over the Machine Learning classes and projects throughout his MSE degree in Robotics. (09:02) Kashish shared valuable lessons learned from multiple internships throughout his undergraduate: data science at Im...

Episode 89: Observable, Robust, and Responsible AI with Alessya Visnjic

April 15, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

Show Notes (01:53) Alessya shared her formative experiences growing up in Kazakhstan, coming to Washington during high school, and discovering a passion and extreme aptitude for mathematics. (04:20) Alessya described her undergraduate experience studying Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. (08:00) Alessya talked about impactful projects she contributed to while working as a software developer at Amazon’s quality assurance and DevOps organizations. (12:29) Alessya went ov...

Episode 88: Sales Engineering and Future of Work with Evan Cummack

April 03, 2022 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MB

Show Notes (02:00) Evan shared his upbringing, born and raised in a small coastal town on New Zealand’s North Island and later studied Software Engineering and Business. (03:55) Evan recalled working as a software solution architect at NEC Corporation back in New Zealand. (06:17) Evan talked about his decision to join Twilio in 2011 as one of the company’s early employees right after its Series B financing. (08:40) Evan shared his perspectives on joining startups and big companies as a n...

Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

March 25, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB

Show Notes (01:51) Nick shared his formative experiences of her childhood — moving between different schools, becoming interested in Math, and graduating from UCLA at the age of 19. (05:45) Nick recalled working as a quant analyst focused on emerging market debt at BlackRock. (09:57) Nick went over his decision to join Airbnb as a data scientist on their growth team in 2014. (12:17) Nick discussed how data science could be used to drive community growth on the Airbnb platform. (16:35) N...

Episode 86: Risk Management, Open-Source Governance, and Negative Engineering with Jeremiah Lowin

March 16, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MB

Show Notes (01:29) Jeremiah reflected on his academic interest studying Statistics and Economics at Harvard. (05:33) Jeremiah recalled his four years as a market risk manager at King Street Capital Management. (07:18) Jeremiah explained how the training in risk management has made a huge impact in his career as a startup founder. (09:48) Jeremiah then founded his own consultancy Lowin Data Company that designed and built ML systems for time series data. (12:38) Jeremiah mentioned his fa...

Episode 85: Ad Exchange, Stream Processing, and Data Discovery Platform with Shinji Kim

March 02, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB

Show Notes (02:00) Shinji reflected on her academic experience studying Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo in the late 2000s. (04:19) Shinji shared valuable lessons learned from her undergraduate co-op experience with statistical analysis at Sun Microsystems, software engineering at Barclays Capital, and growth marketing at Facebook. (08:52) Shinji shared lessons learned from being a Management Consultant at Deloitte. (14:01) Shinji revisited her decision to quit the job ...

Episode 84: Business Development and Customer Success for Emerging Technologies with Taimur Rashid

February 17, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

Show Notes (02:27) Taimur reflected on his education studying Computer Science at UT Austin in the early 2000s. (06:26) Taimur recalled his first job working as a quality assurance engineer at Vignette. (08:47) Taimur went through his time with Oracle / Siebel, where he transitioned from a purely technical engineering-focused role to more customer-facing functions. (13:44) Taimur reflected on his proudest accomplishments at Oracle. (18:23) Taimur recalled dropping out of studying at the...

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