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From Failure to AWS: What Actually Makes a Great Engineer
Victor Moreno went from failing out of a top CS program to becoming a senior engineer at AWS, and his story says a lot about what actually matters in software engineering today.In this conversation,…
How Real Data Engineers Think (Beyond Tools and Hype)
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Yordan Ivanov, Head of Data Engineering at a growing fintech company, to talk through what it actually looks like to build and…
Data, AI, and DuckDB
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Jacob Matson, Developer Advocate at MotherDuck, to unpack one of the most interesting shifts happening in data engineering…
Why I Left Facebook to Work for Myself
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Ben Rogojan to talk about the real story behind data engineering careers, Big Tech, and what’s changing right now.Ben shares…
Academic → CTO: What Actually Matters in Data (Matthew Housley)
Most companies don’t have a tooling problem. They have a foundation problem.In this episode, I sit down with Matthew Housley, a famed co-author of Data Engineering Fundamentals and former CTO of…
AI Isn’t Replacing Curious Developers
AI isn’t just changing how we write code. It’s changing what it even means to build software.In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Neil Roberts — a developer who’s…
AI Is Changing Data Engineering Fast
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Andreas Kretz to break down what is really happening in the industry right now. We go far beyond surface-level AI hype and…
Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong
Most data teams think they’re building value. In reality, they’ve become ticket queues.In this episode, Chris Gambill explains his storied career in tech and data through the years, dealing with data…
From Industrial Data at BASF to Delta Lake Committer
In this episode, Robert Pack walks through his journey from engineering and simulation work to building large-scale data systems across 900+ plants at BASF.We break down what those systems actually…
He Quit Apple After 13 Years
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Kevin, who spent 13 years working at Apple before walking away at the end of 2025.* Not to jump to another job.* Not to start a company.*…
Spark, AI, and the Future of Data Engineering with Daniel Aronovich
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with the founder of DataFlint, Daniel Aronovich, to talk about the realities of working with Apache Spark, distributed data systems, and the…
DuckDB, AI, and the Future of Data Engineering
In this episode, I sit down with Matt Martin, Staff Engineer, data architect, ETL practitioner, and author of a new book on DuckDB coming soon, to talk about the past, present, and future of data…
What Decades in Software Engineering Teaches You
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with a veteran Software Engineer John Crickett; with decades of experience in the industry to unpack what really matters in building a long and…
Data Engineering, AI, and Career Growth
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Yuki (Yuki Kakegawa) to talk about his journey into tech, the tools and platforms he’s worked with, and where he thinks data…
Spark, Lakehouse & AI: A Deep Conversation with Bart Konieczny
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Bart Konieczny — data engineer, distributed systems expert, and well-known author in the Data and Spark ecosystem — for a deep technical…
DevOps vs ClickOps with Maxine Meurer
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Maxine Meurer, DevOps engineer, author, and educator behind I Love DevOps, for a wide-ranging conversation about careers,…
The Evolution of Software, Streaming, and Data Engineering with Robin Moffatt
In this episode, I sit down with industry veteran Robin Moffatt — Sr. Principal Advisor in Streaming Data Technologies (Kafka, etc.) and a longtime voice in the data engineering community, to unpack…
The Lakehouse Architecture: Multimodal Data, Delta Lake, and the Future of Data Engineering (with R. Tyler Croy)
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with R. Tyler Croy for a wide-ranging conversation on the present—and future—of modern data platforms.Tyler is a long-time…
Building the Full Data Stack and the Audience That Comes With It
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Hoyt Emerson, founder of The Full Data Stack and Early Signal, for a wide-ranging conversation on data, analytics, and…
From Wiring Circuits to Data Pipelines
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Andy Leonard — someone who’s been building systems long before “data engineering” was even a job title.Andy’s career didn’t…
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