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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, Anastasia Leng joins host Kelly Kohlleffel to talk about some fascinating marketing perspectives. Anastasia is Founder & CEO at CreativeX, which uses data and AI to help customers like Unilever, Heineken, ING, Facebook, and Pepsi achieve creative excellence at scale. Prior to CreativeX, she founded Hatch.io and spent time at Google and Interbrand doing both Product Marketing and Brand Strategy.
Show Notes:
Learn more about CreativeX: https://www.creativex.com/
Read CreativeX's report on creative quality: https://www.creativex.com/reports/creative-quality-score
Connect with Anastasia on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleng/
On tap for today's episode: Casablance Tea & Apple Pie Chai
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Born out of customer need, Airbyte connects businesses to their data in an open-source data integration platform. Michel Tricot, Co-Founder and CEO at Airbyte, joins Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, to fill us in on how Airbyte started, how they operate, and their incredible community on Slack.
Show Notes:
Learn more about Airbyte: https://airbyte.io/about-us
Join the Airbyte Slack Community: https://airbyte.io/community
Connect with Michel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheltricot/
On tap for today's episode: Ritual Coffee & a Breakfast Blend
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
For this week's episode of Hashmap on Tap we have a great group of Hashmap hosts. Kelly, Chinmayee, and David discuss extracting Facebook Insights using a modern data stack that includes Fivetran, Snowflake, and Looker. The three talk about their experience with these tools and how they achieved true automation making the data extraction process practically effortless.
Show Notes:
Connect with Chinmayee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinmayeelakkad/
Connect with David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hrncir/
See how it's done on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ueX_5xVbHMk
Check out Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/
Check out Fivetran: https://fivetran.com/
Check out Looker: https://looker.com/
Learn more about GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/
Social Media Statistics: https://www.oberlo.com/blog/facebook-statistics
On tap for today's episode: Katamani Coffee from the Island of Bali, Peet's French Roast, and Kicking Horse Coffee
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Hashmap on Tap host, Kelly Kohlleffel, is joined by Tejas Manohar, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Hightouch. Tejas gives insights into Hightouch, what they do, and the value this SaaS-based startup brings to the reverse ETL solution space. Kelly and Tejas also discuss perspectives on use cases for Hightouch, GTM approaches, and hiring.
Show Notes:
Connect with Tejas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejasmanohar/
Try out Hightouch: https://hightouch.io/
Check out Hightouch's Reverse ETL Blog: https://hightouch.io/blog/reverse-etl
Sign up for a Data Integration Workshop: https://www.hashmapinc.com/workshop-dataintegration
On tap for today's episode: Vodka Soda and Shiner Bohemian Black Lager
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
John Aven is the Director of Engineering with Hashmap where he leads and manages the Consulting and Technology Solutions Office. John joins Hashmap host Kelly Kohlleffel to take a look at what goes into a cloud data migration or modernization. John and his team have made this transition easier by creating Hashmap Data Migrator (hdm) - an open-source tool that assists in transporting data from your on-premise data warehouse into cloud data warehouses like Snowflake.
Show Notes:
Cloud Migrations with Hashmap
Connect with John on LinkedIn
Introduction to hdm on Medium
Watch a demo of hdm
Read about hdm and state management
Accelerating Netezza to Snowflake Migrations
Using Hashmap Data Migrator (hdm)
Listen to John's previous appearance on Hashmap On Tap
On tap for today’s episode: Southern Season Carolina Blend and Klatch Golden Bean Espresso
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Tejas Manohar is Co-Founder of Hightouch, a Bay Area-based startup that helps customers sync data over 80 destinations. Hightouch’s goal with data activation is to help companies be proactive about the kinds of business workflows they want to drive based on the data in their warehouse. Listen as Tejas shares about Hightouch’s exponential growth. Given their customer base spans across so many industries, it’s obvious that this is a problem every company faces.
Show Notes:
Check out HightTouch: https://hightouch.com/
Connect with Tejas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejasmanohar/
Follow Hightouch on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HightouchData
On Tap for today's episode: Coffee!
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Dr. Victor Lee is Vice President of Machine Learning and AI at TigerGraph, a platform providing a leading graph database as a software as a service supporting real-time analytics. Dr. Lee joins the show to discuss how graph data represents objects and relationships as another type of object. At TigerGraph, they treat relationships as equally important as the node objects themselves.
Show Notes:
Check out TigerGraph: https://www.tigergraph.com/
Connect with Dr. Lee on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-lee-50542a5/
Check out the TigerGraph Blog: https://www.tigergraph.com/blog/
On tap for today's episode: Jasmine Tea and Apricot Tea from Republic of Tea
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
David Besemer is the VP of Engineering at Cape Privacy, a New York-based startup delivering technologies that enable organizations to run powerful AI predictions on their most classified and crypted data. David gives us a little more insights into Cape Privacy by sharing their core competencies including privacy by default services for running AI predictions. Privacy by default refers to a situation in which it isn't possible for data to be leaked for others to see. Listen to the episode to hear how they achieve this, David's background, and how they created Cape Privacy.
Show Notes:
Check out Cape Privacy: https://capeprivacy.com/
On tap for today's episode: Margaritas
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Tomer Shiran is Co-Founder and CPO of Dremio, a Bay Area-based, high-performance, forever-free lakehouse platform that builds on an open data architecture by the creators of Apache Arrow. Prior to founding Drimeo, Tomer was an early employee at MapR Technologies where he ran product management. Tomer dives into their plans at Dremio to impact the data industry through better, more scalable platforms which will allow companies to have a data platform they can truly rely on. Listen in to hear more about Tomer's background, how Dremio got started, and their plans for the future.
Show Notes:
Check out Dremio: https://www.dremio.com/
Learn more from Dremio's Blog: https://www.dremio.com/blog/
Connect with Tomer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshiran/
On tap for today's episode: Cappucino & Espresso
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Manish is Co-Founder and CEO at Hevo Data. They are a Bay Area-based data integration platform for moving data into your cloud data warehouse. Hevo Data also provides reverse ETL capabilities to move data from your warehouse to SaaS applications. Listen in to the episode to learn more about Hevo Data and how they’ve created a no-code, intuitive data pipeline.
Show Notes:
Check out Hevo Data: https://hevodata.com/
Read Hevo Data's blog: https://hevodata.com/blog/
Connect with Manish on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishjethani/
Learn more about Data Integration: https://www.hashmapinc.com/workshop-dataintegration
On tap for today's episode: Coffee, coffee, coffee!
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Welcome back, Richie Bachala! Richie is a Principal at Yugabyte, a distributed SQL database built to power global-scale, cloud-native applications. On this episode, Richie joins us to walk us through his latest blog post about the Data Engineering Center of Excellence, current trends for where investment is going in data, and his current role at Yugabyte. Listen in to hear some fantastic perspectives on data engineering and what areas you should be keeping an eye on.
Show notes:
Check out Yugabyte: https://www.yugabyte.com/
Join the Yugabyte Slack community: https://communityinviter.com/apps/yugabyte-db/register
Read Richie's blog post: https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-data-engineering-center-of-excellence-b83d51cedb6a
Connect with Richie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richiebachala/
Follow Richie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/richiebachala
On tap for today's episode: Sparkling Iced Tea and Bulletproof Coffee
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Maarten is Co-Founder and CEO at Soda. They are a Brussels Belgium-based, open-source data observability and monitoring platform for a modern data stack that helps you address both data quality and trust. They are ensuring high-quality, trusted data is available to enable confident decision-making for data teams. Maarten shares how Soda was started, the advantages of an open-source platform, and what data reliability and observability mean today. Find out how they are enabling data teams to discover, prioritize, and resolve data issues.
Show Notes:
Check out Soda.io: https://www.soda.io/
Become a part of the Soda community: https://soda-community.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-pf67xl6u-n3wexBNDl71VC6vK8fSPjg#/shared-invite/email
Check out the Soda Podcast: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/sodapodcast
Soda Core OSS Data Reliability Engineering-As-Code: https://www.soda.io/oss
Soda Cloud: https://www.soda.io/cloud
Connect with Maarten on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maartenm/
Learn more about data reliability through our data governance resources: https://www.hashmapinc.com/datagovernance
On tap for today's episode: Nespresso all around! Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Who has time to constantly monitor dashboards? Cliff.ai tracks unexpected changes in your metrics instantly without creating dashboards or complex data pipelines. Aayush Jain is Co-Founder and CEO at cliff.ai where they are helping businesses stay on the top of their metrics without any dashboards or coding with a goal of finding & fixing business issues as they are happening using data. Prior to cliff.ai Aayush founded multiple other companies including Greendeck and TrueMD. Listen to this episode to hear more about Aayush’s journey, how cliff.ai began, and how they are taking responsibility for business reliability.
Show Notes:
Check out cliff.ai: https://www.cliff.ai/
Check out open roles at cliff.ai: https://www.notion.so/Careers-Cliff-ai-fcdb112b7b4a409fb1a8de38f566bb22
Connect with Aayush on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aayushdotjain/
On tap for today's episode: Hibiscus tea (Republic of Tea) and Kahwa Tea (Grandma's Tea)
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Do you ever feel like you're sacrificing innovation for privacy? Pim is Co-Founder and Robin is a Founding Engineer at STRM Privacy, a Dutch startup, where they are delivering privacy-by-design data pipelines from data collection all the way to storage and consumption helping to decrease privacy risk, remove coordination time between legal and data, and increase data outcome velocity. Listen in to this episode to hear how they are helping clients make data pipelines secure from the beginning and taking in data that meet the privacy standards.
Show Notes:
Check out STRM Privacy: https://www.strmprivacy.io/
Check out more Data Governance resources: https://www.hashmapinc.com/datagovernance
On tap for today's episode: Dutch Trappist Ale & Gentleman Jackalope IPA
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Armon Petrossian is CEO & Co-Founder of Coalesce, a code-first, GUI-driven data transformation solution that is architected for scale, is column aware, has native git integration, and provides automated documentation. Prior to Coalesce, Armon was part of the founding team at Wherescape. Listen in to the episode to hear Armon and host Kelly Kohlleffel discuss how Coalesce started, the originating problem statement, the importance of a column-aware architecture, and why Coalesce makes sure anyone brought on board is a great culture fit, plus much more.
Show Notes:
Learn more about Coalesce here: https://coalesce.io/
Connect with Armon at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armonpetrossian
On tap for this episode: Spindrift, black coffee, Bulletproof Coffee, and Decaf Nespresso
Contact us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Andrew is Founder and CEO at Praxi Data which has a patented matching engine coupled with curated data libraries to enable true enterprise data discovery. Praxi Data enables you to search across all of your data with any coding standard and run their ML algorithms to discover the best quality source information, securely. They provide continuous deep data-driven insights for businesses and organizations by automating key processes with industry-specific expert libraries of terms. Prior to founding Praxi Data, Andrew spent time at Waterline Data, Hortonworks, Intercontinental Exchange, and the NYSE. Listen in to the episode to hear how Praxi Data got started and where they’re at in their journey to making the most out of data:
Show Notes:
Learn more about Praxi Data: https://praxidata.com/
Check out Praxi Data's blog: https://praxidata.com/blog/
Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewahn1
On tap for today's episode: Ikon Coffee and Bulletproof Coffee
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Kevin is Co-Founder and CEO at Metaplane a Y Combinator backed data observability platform for the modern data stack that tells you when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix them proactively. Metaplane helps teams efficiently monitor their cloud data warehouse while identifying downstream impact with automated warehouse-to-BI lineage. Kevin previously earned a PhD from MIT, where he focused on researching automated data visualization and semantic type detection. Metaplane wants to ensure that every company of any size can trust its data. Listen in to the episode to hear how Kevin and the team plan to achieve their goals.
Show Notes:
Check out Metaplane for yourself: https://www.metaplane.dev/
Read Metaplane's blog: https://www.metaplane.dev/
Connect with Kevin Hu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinzenghu/
On tap for today's episode: Kung Fu Tea Taro Milk Tea and Honey Ginseng Green Tea from Republic of Tea with Organic Kiawe Honey with Ginger
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
March is a month dedicated to highlighting the contributions of women throughout history. We are thrilled to host three women data leaders to discuss their thoughts on modern solutions to data governance. Jyoti Pathak is Director of Data Engineering and Analytics at TD SYNNEX. They’re a leading distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem. Molly Vorwerck is Head of Content and Communications at Monte Carlo, a data observability and reliability platform. Amy Horowitz is Regional Vice President at Matillion, a modern analytics and cloud-native solution providing ETL and data integration solutions. A topic that has been coming up a lot lately is data quality and reliability. Listen in to this special episode to hear perspectives on modern solutions for data reliability and data quality.
Show Notes:
Watch the video version of this discussion: https://youtu.be/sYR_qsNQPyI
Check out TD SYNNEX: https://www.tdsynnex.com/
Check out Monte Carlo: https://www.montecarlodata.com/
Check out Matillion: https://www.matillion.com/
Connect with Jyoti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyotipathak/
Connect with Molly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vorwerck/
Connect with Amy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyhorowitz/
Learn more about modern solutions to data governance: https://www.hashmapinc.com/datagovernance
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Sharad Varshney is Co-Founder and CEO at OvalEdge, a cost-effective data catalog and data governance toolset designed to be used by everyone, every day, to get trusted data when they need it. Prior to OvalEdge, Sharad spent time at Hortonworks, Cohesive, and other tech companies. Listen in to the episode to hear why Sharad believes data governance is a necessity for all businesses and how setting standards helps to ensure that data is trustworthy.
Show Notes:
Learn more about OvalEdge here: https://www.ovaledge.com/
Connect with Sharad at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharadvarshney/
On tap for this episode: Turkish coffee from Café Intermezzo and espresso from Nespresso.
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out
Jeremiah Lowin and host Kelly Kohlleffel discuss how Prefect is making “dataflows as easy as .py.” Jeremiah is Co-Founder and CEO at Prefect where they are providing workflow management, orchestration, scheduling, and dataflow automation. Jeremiah and the team view Prefect as an insurance product. They provide the most value when something has gone wrong rather than when everything is working fine. Listen in to the episode to hear Jeremiah’s story, how Prefect started and where they are today, and how they are eliminating the worry from data pipelines.
Show Notes:
Learn more about Prefect: https://www.prefect.io/about/company/
Take a sneak peek at Orion: https://www.prefect.io/orion/
Get started with Prefect: https://universal.prefect.io/signin/register
Listen to Jeremiah's podcast explaining Crypto: https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-podcast-explains-cryptocurrencies-2017-9
On tap for today's episode: Compass Coffee and Bulletproof Coffee
Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out





