#128 Creating Trust Through Transparency with Maarten Masschelein, Co-Founder and CEO at Soda

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