Hashmap on Tap

In this episode, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by James Weakley, Co-Founder of Omnata. James and his team are building enterprise integration for the modern data stack. James started Omnata in his spare time while working at NIB, a publicly listed healthcare insurer. NIB introduced Databricks to create predictive modeling which created large data sets. The team quickly faced the issue of storing those 40 million records and being able to access and gain value from that data. Omnata was successfully implemented to solve this challenge as a free app in the Salesforce App Exchange. Since then, James has taken Omnata on full time. They offer an enterprise integration solution with Omnata Connect and a reverse ETL tool with Omnata Push. Listen in to the episode to hear more about how Omnata developed, their GTM strategy, and how James got started from an agriculture technology background.

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Tyler is Senior Manager of Data & Analytics at Waste Management, the #1 integrated environmental solutions company in North America serving nearly 20 million municipal, commercial, industrial, and residential customers. At Waste Management, Tyler leads a team of Digital Technology Professionals providing data that is curated, trusted, and accurate covering numerous areas including their Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Data Governance, plus Data Analytics & Reporting platforms. Listen in and hear how Tyler and the team have managed to deliver significant data products for their customer service initiatives over the last year!

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, Kelly is joined by Ajay Khanna. Ajay is Founder and CEO at Tellius, where they are delivering AI-driven decision intelligence and guided insights. Prior to starting Tellius, Ajay also led Amdocs and Celcite where he and his team launched a real-time, self-optimizing network solution. Listen in to hear how Ajay started Tellius and how they go beyond data analytics to provide the 'what' and 'why' to make easier and better business decisions plus why you need a VC that connects to your vision, the criticality of velocity and speed, and the importance of making new mistakes, not the same old ones.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Omar Khawaja. Omar is Head of Business Intelligence at Roche where he and the team are building data products utilizing modern data principles and a modern data stack. Kelly and Omar get into some exciting data topics like the potential for data mesh along with practical advice for starting each project by making the user's experience around the outcome their focus. Listen in to hear Omar's fascinating story and great perspectives.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by AB Periasamy. AB is Co-Founder and CEO at MinIO, where they are delivering high-performance, S3 compatible multi-cloud object storage that is software-defined, 100% open-source, and native to Kubernetes. Prior to starting MinIO, AB co-founded Gluster which was acquired by RedHat and he’s also an angel investor and advisor to a range of companies including Starburst, H2O.ai, Manetu, Humio, and Yugabyte. AB shares his story, how a culture of collaboration launched him into the open-source space, and provides sound advice to startups from a startup founder and investor.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Suresh Srinivas and Harsha Chintalapani. Suresh and Harsha are the Co-Founders of OpenMetadata, a rapidly growing open source project that defines specifications to standardize metadata with a schema-first approach and a centralized metadata store that integrates with popular systems and services in the data stack to collect, store, and index metadata via API and through a web UI. These two have a wealth of information and experience from their time at Uber, Hortonworks, and Yahoo. Listen in to hear their perspective on the data landscape today and what they're up to at OpenMetadata plus their insights across a range of topics including how architecture is only clean in powerpoints (or google slides), the fact that data "missed the boat" on UX, and their thoughts about how data is a team game.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Peter Fishman. Fish is Co-Founder and CEO at Mozart Data, where they are helping clients go from siloed, messy data to analysis-ready data in a matter of hours. Prior to starting Mozart Data, Fish was Chief Strategy Officer at Eaze, founded the Bacon Hot Sauce Company, and spent time at Opendoor, Zenefits, and Yammer. Listen in and hear how Fish went from sports statistics to starting a hot sauce company to starting Mozart Data and some of the practical data lessons he learned along the way.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Manoj Thomas, Sr. Director of IT at Netgear. Manoj leads data teams that are delivering insights across the Netgear ecosystem. The two discuss where Netgear is in their data modernization journey and the technologies in their modern data stack allowing them to get the highest impact and provide their customers with the best experience.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Rashmi Agrawal. Rashmi is Director of Data & Analytics at Oldcastle, a global, industry-leading manufacturer of concrete building and hardscape products with who we've had the pleasure of working with. After starting their journey to the cloud last year, Oldcastle has been building data services and products in AWS using Snowflake and Matillion. Listen in to hear their approach to acquiring data, putting the right design in place, automation perspectives, and how they're tackling other data challenges.

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On this episode of Hashmap on Tap, host Kelly Kohlleffel is joined by Rohit Choudhary. Rohit is Founder and CEO at Acceldata providing a multi-dimensional data observability cloud that provides compute performance monitoring, manages data reliability, and enables data pipeline observability. Before founding Acceldata, Rohit spent time with Hortonworks as Director of Engineering and founded Appsterix which was acquired by 24/7 iLabs.

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