Hashmap on Tap

Hashmap hosts, Kelly, Preetpal, and Randy, discuss IBM Netezza and the nuts and bolts of the wave of Netezza cloud migrations taking place today. They share different perspectives, approaches, and risks involved in a Netezza to Snowflake migration.

Kelly Kohlleffel and Randy Pitcher share how they enable clients to find technologies that provide specific outcomes and achieve their goals, how they think about building recommendations for data architecture components, and discuss Hashmap Recommender.

Dain Sundstrom and David Phillips are the co-creators of Presto and technical founders at Starburst where they are Chief Technology Officers. They created Presto in 2012 while at Facebook in order to fill the need for a highly performant, distributed, open source SQL query engine. Dain and David share advice for developers looking to jump into the open source space and the beginnings of Presto.

Ivan Alvarez is the Vice President of Big Data and Enterprise Analytics at NCR Corporation. NCR is the world's leading enterprise technology provider of software, hardware and services for banks, retailers, restaurants, small businesses, telecom, and technology. Ivan shares the kind of challenges he and his team solve working with 20 million endpoints and securing and servicing the world’s payment backbone. Ivan also shares how he fosters innovation within the industry and discusses going from a strictly on-premise environment to a hybrid-cloud solution.

Fraser is the VP of Product at Fivetran - the leader in automated data integration, delivering ready-to-use connectors that adapt to change. He has been with Fivetran since the early days four years ago and has been a part of the rapid growth since. Their big news recently was a $100M Series C funding round, making them a Unicorn startup. Fraser shares the beginnings of Fivetran and major challenges he and his team work to solve.

Kelly Kohlleffel and Randy Pitcher discuss their first experiences working with Hadoop, why it can be challenging for non-software engineering companies to work with, and advice for those interested in getting started with a cloud data warehouse.

Ajay Bidani is the IT Business Systems Manager of the Product Design and Manufacturing Team at Powell Industries. Powell is a major provider of packaged solutions for the control, monitoring, and distribution of electrical power and other critical industrial processes. Ajay and Randy Pitcher discuss challenges with modernizing data infrastructure and analytics solutions in the cloud within the manufacturing industry and Ajay shares some concrete leadership advice.

Trey Dempsey is a Senior DevOps Engineer here at Hashmap. Trey shares how he sets up his various home automation projects using microcontrollers, #OpenHAB, and batteries.

Chinmayee Lakkad is a data engineer here at Hashmap. Chinmayee shares her best practices for joining large tables in Snowflake, her personal learning strategies, and experiences with data build tool (dbt) and MkDocs. Randy and Chinmayee also discuss Hashmap’s Snowflake Inspector tool.

Hashmap co-founder, Preetpal Singh, shares with Kelly Kohlleffel how Hashmap was founded, origins of the company name, entrepreneurship and leadership, thoughts on innovation and creativity, and the game of Squash.