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The Data Engineering Show

by The Firebolt Data Bros

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How AI Is Reshaping Modern Data Teams and the Future of Platforms with Xavier Gumara Rigol

August 18, 2026 · 18 min

What if AI could transform how your entire data team works—without replacing them? In this episode, Benjamin Wagner explores with Xavier Gumara Rigol, Head of Data at Manychat, how natural language-to-SQL tools are reshaping data analyst…
Building Modern Data Platforms Without Legacy Bottlenecks ft Andrew Jones

August 6, 2026 · 20 min

What if you could transform your data team from a bottleneck into a self-serve platform that empowers the entire organization? In this episode, host Benjamin Wagner sits down with Andrew Jones, Staff Data Engineer at LocalStack, to explore…
Why 99% of BI Tools Get Embedded Analytics Wrong And How Omni Fixed It ft. Chris Merrick

July 21, 2026 · 21 min

What if the future of analytics wasn't about building another middleware layer, but about getting closer to the actual business user? In this episode, Benjamin sits down with Chris Merrick, CTO and cofounder of Omni, to explore why…
AI for Data and Data for AI: The Dual Frontier of Modern Data Engineering with Pranav Motarwar

June 16, 2026 · 20 min

What if the data engineering skills you have today become obsolete in five years? In this episode, host Benjamin Wagner sits down with Pranav Motarwar, a data engineer who's witnessed the industry's transformation from traditional ETL to…
AI Won't Replace Engineers, But This Framework Will Change How They Build with Rohit Girme

May 7, 2026 · 18 min

What if you could build AI features with confidence while moving at the pace of innovation? In this episode, Benjamin Wagner sits down with Rohit Girma, Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, to explore how to evaluate generative AI in…

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The Framework Canva Uses for 200M+ Designers with Paul Tune

April 28, 2026 · 22 min

In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, Benjamin sits down with Paul Tune, Staff Research Scientist at Canva, to explore the advancement of machine learning at one of the world's leading design platforms. Learn how Canva is…
Llama 2 & 3 Safety: Soumya Batra on Agentic AI Training

April 8, 2026 · 23 min

What if the expertise that built foundation models could reshape how you think about AI's future? In this episode, Benjamin sits down with Soumya Batra, founder and CEO of WisePort AI and former safety lead on Llama 2 and Llama 3 at Meta…
The Data Fusion Secret & Why Custom Query Engines Fail with Nikita Lapkov

March 24, 2026 · 18 min

What if building a distributed SQL engine meant rethinking everything about how query execution works at scale? In this episode, Benjamin sits down with Nikita, Senior Software Engineer at Cloudflare, to explore how R2 SQL leverages object…
How Zipline AI Turns Weeks of Engineering Into Minutes of SQL Queries ft. Nikhil Simha

March 10, 2026 · 24 min

What if you could deploy ML features and real-time data pipelines without building complex infrastructure from scratch? In this episode, host Benjamin sits down with Nikhil Simha, CTO at Zipline AI and co-author of Chronon AI, to explore…
The Geo-Data Problem Nobody Talks About And How Voi Solved It ft. Magnus Dahlbäck

February 19, 2026 · 16 min

What if your data platform could power both critical business decisions and real-time product features at scale? In this episode, host Benjamin sits down with Magnus Dahlbäck, Senior Director of Data and Platform at Voi, to explore how a…
Why 99% of Data Teams Give Up on Real-Time And How Artie Changes That

February 3, 2026 · 29 min

What happens when a team of seven engineers spends a year trying to build a production-ready CDC connector and fails? For Artie CTO and co-founder Robin Tang, it was the spark needed to build a platform that makes data streaming…
The $100M Problem: How Lyft's Data Platform Prevents ML Failures with Ritesh Varyani at Lyft

December 16, 2025 · 26 min

What if your data platform could serve AI-native workloads while scaling reliably across your entire organization? In this episode, Benjamin sits down with Ritesh, Staff Engineer at Lyft, to explore how to build a unified data stack with…

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About the show

The Data Engineering Show is a podcast for data engineering and BI practitioners to go beyond theory. Learn from the biggest influencers in tech about their practical day-to-day data challenges and solutions in a casual and fun setting. SEASON 1 DATA BROS Eldad and Boaz Farkash shared the same stuffed toys growing up as well as a big passion for data. After founding Sisense and building it to become a high-growth analytics unicorn, they moved on to their next venture, Firebolt, a leading high-performance cloud data warehouse. SEASON 2 DATA BROS In season 2 Eldad adopted a brilliant new little brother, and with their shared love for query processing, the connection was immediate. After excelling in his MS, Computer Science degree, Benjamin Wagner joined Firebolt to lead its query processing team and is a rising star in the data space. For inquiries contact tamar@firebolt.io Website: https://www.firebolt.io