Data on Snow: Recent Episodes
Data on Snow
Data on Snow is a technology podcast for Snowflake implementation. We feature data leaders who bring the best practices and learning to help implement Snowflake Data warehouse.
In this podcast, Mike shares her experiences with Snowflake including:
- The challenges they were facing with Redshift for them to move to snowflake
- Integration architecture of their analytics platform and type of analytics bring done.
- Best practices and learning from implementing Snowflake data platform
Mike is VP Engineering at Getaround - a connected car sharing company. He has extensive experience in working at internet companies.
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In this podcast, Lisa Aguilera shares her experiences with Snowflake including:
• Why they moved from Microsoft stack to Snowflake.
• How they are integrating different types of data from 40-50 applications
• Journey of migration to Snowflake and the roadmap ahead
Lisa is the director of business intelligence at DriveTime. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, DriveTime is the largest privately owned used car sales and finance company in the country.
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In this podcast, John Pattison shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
• Challenges with the old architecture that lead them to adopt Snowflake
• How they ingest large amount of data in real-time and the type of analytics being done
• Top features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
John is the architect at Redwood supply chain solutions and has extensive experience in Logistics systems and analytics.
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In this podcast, John Adams shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
- Why he chose Snowflake in the current and previous SaaS companies.
- How they are integrating marketing data and doing extensive analytics including predictive modelling.
- Key features of Snowflake that they found very useful
John is the CTO at PowerChord and previously CTO at Bringhub – both SaaS companies. He has extensive technical expertise in building data and SaaS platforms.
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In this podcast, Pedro shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
| Why they chose Snowflake for their EDW platform
| How they are integrating data in real-time from multiple cloud systems
| Very interesting features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
Pedro is Manager of Data Engineering at OutSystems which is a low code development platform. Pedro and his team has built a very interesting data lake integrating a lot of systems.
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In this podcast, Oliver Loeffler shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
| What challenges they were facing with SQL server that they had to move to Snowflake
| How they are integrating large amounts of gaming data and analytics done.
| Shares learnings and best practices
Oliver is the CTO and Co-Founder of Kolibri Games which as the name suggests makes exciting video games. They collect a huge amount of gaming data to understand the user behaviour and do a lot of interesting analytics.
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In this podcast, Michal explains about handling 8PB of data for analytics.
| How he was able get sub-sec response on such large amount of data
| What kind of performance techniques he used
| Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings in managing large amounts of data
Michal is the Senior Director of Engineering at Indigo where he is managing a data platform for Agriculture data. Prior to this he was with Localytics where they collected 8PB of data from billions of Mobile devices.
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In this podcast, Michael Hammer shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
| Their evaluation methodology of comparing various cloud DW platforms
| How they are integrating data in real-time from multiple systems like SAP
| Very interesting features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
Michael is the Senior Manager, Analytics at Bio-Rad - a healthcare diagnostics company. He has built a very interesting analytics platform on Snowflake catering to more than 100 countries.
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In this podcast, Robert shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including:
| Why they had to migrate from SQL server to Snowflake
| What type of analytics in being done in medical data
| Key features of Snowflake they found most helpful like Snowpipe, db share etc.
| Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Robert is the CTO at Higi - A consumer healthcare start-up. At Higi he and his team has built a very interesting data platform integrating a lot of medical data from 10000 kiosks.
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In this podcast, Dave shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including:
| Why they had to migrate from MongoDB to Redshift to Snowflake!
| What type of analytics in being done in IOT data from GPS systems
| Why type of data security has been implemented for secure financial data on cloud.
| Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Dave is the VP-data architecture at PIMCO where he is leading a EDW implementation program. Earlier he was Senior Director at Spireon where he implemented a very interesting data warehouse with IOT data.
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In this podcast, Robert his experiences with Snowflake including:
| How do they inject large amount of gaming data in Snowflake
| The business impact of implementing Snowflake data lake
| Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Robert is Senior VP of data science at Seriously Digital Entertainment. Seriously is into making video games which generates a lot of gaming data and lot of very interesting analytics is done on that.
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In this podcast, Avinash shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including
- Why they had to migrate to Snowflake from another cloud platform just within 1 year!
- What use cases they have implemented on Snowflake and what is the roadmap
- What features of Snowflake helped them the most
- Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Avinash is the head of architecture for data solutions at Logitech. He has extensive experience in building data platforms across technologies like Snowflake, Redshift, Teradata etc. He brings is a very unique perspective of their Snowflake journey at Logitech.
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In this podcast, Kai Wolffram shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including:
- His experience of evaluating cloud DW technologies and why he chose Snowflake
- How they handled critical implementation elements like, architecture, data security
- Business benefits of their Snowflake implementation
- Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Kai Wolffram is the Head of Analytics & Hotel Technology for TUI, the world’s largest travel company. He is responsible for the complete value chain of Analytics across all Hotel brands. Kai and his team were one of the first customers to start a Snowflake project in Germany about 3 years ago.
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In this episode Dinesh Jain the founder of Data on Snow Podcast and Kloutix explains the idea behind the podcast. He also talks about why he thinks Snowflake is the future of Cloud Data platforms. Learn more about the podcast and what you can expect to learn from it.
Contact Dinesh Jain | Website.