The DataAware Podcast

DataAware is not just a podcast — it’s a think tank for data professionals. From Data Engineers and Analytics Engineers to Chief Data Officers, we cater to those who don’t just follow trends but forge new paths in data engineering. Our episodes offer a blend of current insights and visionary discussions, focusing on innovations and out-of-the-box ideas shaping the future of data.

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March 9, 2022

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Nandan Tammineedi

Ep 14 – Autopiloting Snowflake ETL with the Data Automation Cloud

In this episode, we do things a bit differently and chat with one of Ascend's lead engineers, Nandan Tammineedi, about his work helping develop the Ascend for Snowflake platform.

February 23, 2022

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Leslie Denson

Ep 13 – Data Automation: The Pros and Pros. Are there Cons?

In this episode, we look at a foundational aspect of data engineering workloads—automation, including the confusion that frequently surrounds data automation and how some data teams can avoid the major pitfall of going too far too fast.

February 2, 2022

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Leslie Denson

Ep 12 – Orchestrating Data for Success with Automation

In this episode, we chat about one of the foundational principles of data engineering—data orchestration. What is it, who needs it, and just how data engineering organizations need it to evolve over the next few years.

July 14, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Shawn Azman

Ep 11 – Operationalizing Machine Learning Pipelines with Vidora’s Shawn Azman

In this episode, we chatted with Shawn Azman, Head of Operations at Vidora, about successfully operationalizing machine learning pipelines.

June 8, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp. Leslie Denson

Ep 10 – 2021 Data Aware Pulse Survey Results

In this episode, we sat down to chat through the surprising (and not so surprising) results from our 2021 DataAware Pulse Survey, which takes a look at how the data engineering landscape is evolving and how data teams are changing with it to meet growing organizational needs.

May 13, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Joe Stevens

Ep 9 – Streamlining Data Infrastructure with a new Single Cluster Footprint

We recently made a few significant upgrades to the infrastructure footprint that supports the Ascend.io environments our customers use.

April 21, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp, James Campbell

Ep 8 – Expecting Great Things from Data with James Campbell

In this episode, we chatted with James Campbell, CTO of Superconductive—the team behind Great Expectations, about some of the intricacies of data validation as well as what it's like to build an engaged community in the data realm.

March 3, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp

Ep 7 – Achieving Data Alignment at Every Level with X is Y

In this episode, we dove in with Cyrus Facciano & Jared Langguth of X is Y about the challenges that data teams—all the way up to the CDO—face in getting alignment on data, data strategy, and analytics outcomes.

February 17, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp

Ep 6 – Making Healthcare Smarter Using AI & ML with Special Guest Miguel Alvarado of Lumiata

In this episode, we chatted with Miguel Alvarado, CTO at Lumiata, about how data science is moving the needle in the healthcare industry, as well as what organizations should be looking for when it comes to AI & ML centric data teams.

February 4, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp, William Knighting

Ep 5 – Shaving off Time to Analysis at Harry’s

In the latest episode of the DataAware podcast, Sheel and Harry’s Data Analyst William Knighting discuss how the Harry’s data science team recently undertook an effort to expedite ingesting, transforming, and delivering new retail data feeds into a robust shared data model that connects all brand information across every retail delivery model.

January 22, 2021

Hosts: Sean Knapp, Sheel Choksi

Ep 4 – Diving Into Data Engineering with Sheel Choksi

In the latest episode of the DataAware podcast, Sean and I chatted with our own Sheel Choksi about his path to data engineering and what he’s learned along the way.

January 6, 2021

Hosts: Michael Leppitsch, Jesse Anderson

Ep 3 – The Evolution of Data Teams with special guest Jesse Anderson

In this episode, we chat with Jesse Anderson, managing director of the Big Data Institute and author of the new book Data Teams (available at datateams.io), about the growth and change of data teams. We chat about best (and worst) practices for how data engineers, analysts, and scientists can work together now and in the future.