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AI Is a Mirror: MLOps, LLMOps & the Future of AI Engineering | Maria Vechtomova

September 30, 2026 · 50 min

What does it actually take to build AI systems that work in production? In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Maria Vechtomova, AI Engineering Lead, co-founder of CAUCHY, Databricks MVP, and author of MLOps with…
The Future of Data Engineering in the Age of AI | Erfan Hesami

September 16, 2026 · 47 min

I sat down with Erfan Hesami, founder of Pipeline to Insights, to talk about where data engineering is headed as AI and agents become part of everyday engineering work. We dig into the changing role of the data engineer, the growing…
Big Tech Laid Him Off. He Realized He Didn’t Need a Job. — Asian Dad Energy

September 9, 2026 · 49 min

What happens when you spend decades building a successful career in tech, finally reach Big Tech, and then suddenly get laid off? In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with AsianDadEnergy to talk about his…
Spark Isn't Going Anywhere. So They Rebuilt It in Rust. — Shehab Amin, CEO of LakeSail

September 2, 2026 · 57 min

In this episode, I sit down with Shehab Amin, co-founder and CEO of LakeSail, to talk about what happens when you decide to rebuild one of data engineering’s most important technologies, Apache Spark, in Rust … sorta. We dig into Shehab’s…
Agentic Data Engineering Is Here — But Can It Close the Loop?

July 22, 2026 · 34 min

AI can now write SQL, generate Python, review pull requests, and build entire applications with a few well-crafted prompts. Yet despite all of that progress, data engineering still feels oddly resistant to the full AI revolution. Pipelines…

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What Happens When a Software Engineer Builds a Company Alone?

July 15, 2026 · 48 min

When people think about starting a software company, they usually imagine raising venture capital, hiring engineers, and growing a team as quickly as possible. Michael Drogalis chose a different path. After helping build technology in the…
The Creator of Pandas on AI, Apache Arrow, and the Future of Software Engineering

July 8, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

The creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow, Wes McKinney, joins the Data Engineering Central Podcast for an in-depth conversation about how modern data engineering came to exist, where AI is taking software development, and why…
From COBOL to Copilot: 30 Years of Data, BI, and AI with David Langer

July 1, 2026 · 57 min

What happens when someone who started programming on a Commodore 64 watches AI reshape the entire data industry? In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Dave Langer to explore nearly three decades of…
Semantic Layers, Agents, and the Future of Analytics

June 24, 2026 · 45 min

In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with David Jaitillake to explore the future of data engineering, analytics, and AI. David has spent nearly two decades working across data teams, from analyst roles in the…
The Future of the Lakehouse: Delta Lake, Rust, and Data Platforms at Scale

June 17, 2026 · 56 min

In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Ethan, a maintainer of delta-rs and an expert in modern lakehouse architecture working in the pharmaceutical industry. We discuss Ethan’s journey into tech and data…
From Failure to AWS: What Actually Makes a Great Engineer

June 10, 2026 · 52 min

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, we go deep into the reality behind the…
How Real Data Engineers Think (Beyond Tools and Hype)

June 3, 2026 · 49 min

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 run real data platforms in…