Episodes

This week's guest is Naveen Siddereddy. Naveen is a Data Solutions Architect, at Sony PlayStation. His work is aimed at helping studios across the world plan better for the next game release. His role requires using the right data frameworks to enable analysts, and coordinating with business line planners make wise financial decisions.

Sources And Destinations Podcast Episode #3 Naveen Siddareddy

This week we welcome Joseph Arriola. He is the Data Engineering and AI lead at Yalo Chat and he is also the host of Big Data Guatemala Meetup group. Joseph is passionate about technology related to the power of the data . His experience as an engineer started in development in different languages and he later found interest in how technology met business with data, so he migrated to the world of analytics.

Joseph chats with us about chatbots, Tensorflow models, and the handoff between his engineering team and the data science team. Follow us for more great data engineering conversations.

Sources And Destinations Podcast Episode #4 Joseph Arriola

Putting garbage in gets you garbage out. No one understands this better than developers. No one understands developers like Lorna Mitchell.

This week we welcome author, developer advocate, and technical writing maestro Lorna Mitchell. She is the Lead Developer Advocate at Aiven. Lorna has also authored several books on PHP, Git Fundamentals for Web Developers, and DZone Refcard on Redis. 

In her own words… She is a “technology addict and incurable blogger.

Find out more about Lorna Mitchell 
- https://twitter.com/lornajane?s=20
- https://aiven.io/

Sources And Destinations Podcast Episode #5 Lorna Mitchell

We know, we know. We went a little long this time, but you are going to love every minute of this week's guest. This week we are so excited to host Ahmed Elsamadisi from Narrator.ai. Ahmed is the co-founder and CEO of Narrator.ai, a startup that standardizes all data into a single format. And he previously built out WeWork’s data infrastructure and has also worked as an AI engineer at Raytheon. Not only that, he was also selected as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 this year.

Ahmed chats with us about what it takes to be truly data driven, shares his learnings from WeWork in a high scale/competitive market, and what led him to create his own company, Narrator.ai.

Sources And Destinations Podcast Episode #6 Ahmed Elsamadisi

This week we welcome Jordan Volz, Field Engineering Lead at Continual.ai. Jordan has been working in the data and machine learning space for over a decade at companies like Cloudera and Dataiku. A mathematician by training Jordan found himself at the forefront of the big data and machine learning revolution and speaks about the waves of adoption in data science and machine learning.

Sources and Destinations Podcast Episode #7 Jordan Volz

This week we are happy to host Keith Gaputis. Keith is the Data Engineering Lead at Axis Group. Axis Group is a longtime StreamSets partner and friend to the field. Keith joins us to talks about cloud, containers, and working on functional teams across engineering and data science.

Sources And Destinations Podcast Episode #8 Keith Gaputis

The Sources and Destinations Podcast explores the world of the Data Engineer and hosts discussions with forward thinking data engineers and influential ecosystem players.

Sources and Destinations Podcast Episode #1 The Data EngiYear

This week we are excited to welcome Banjo Obayomi, Senior Research Engineer at Two Six Labs. Banjo chats about using machine learning to identify low latency DDOS attacks and generating data to feed the models.

Two Six Website
https://www.twosixlabs.com

Blog Post
https://www.twosixlabs.com/magicwand-an-lsddos-pcap-generation-platform/

Github
https://github.com/twosixlabs/magicwand-datatool/

Bio:
Banjo is a tenured engineer focused on developing end to end solutions for big data analytic platforms, leveraging AWS technologies and more. He is involved in creating IaC solutions via Ansible, Docker, and Jenkins for build automation and configuration management. He can routinely be found creating infrastructure components needed to store artifacts, monitor clusters and orchestrate deployments to meet the project needs. Banjo is also head operator at Grimoire Blogs an interactive blogging platform that allows you to embed data, graphs, APIs and more without any coding (Think of it as Wordpress for Data Scientists). And lastly, but no less important, Banjo is the host of his own The DataOpsDC Meetup which has showcased amazing talent including illuminating data architects, data engineers, and cloud engineers.