This episode features an interview with Yullia Tkachova, Co-founder and CEO of Masthead Data, an observability platform that catches anomalies in Google BigQuery in real-time. She holds degrees in Management Information Systems, Math, Statistics, and Marketing. Prior to Masthead, Yuliia designed complex BI products and solutions powered by ML and utilized by Fortune 500 companies.

In this episode, Sam and Yuliia discuss how ML is shaping the future of data analytics, caring about users, and the fundamental human right to privacy.

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“We map those errors and anomalies on lineage, helping to understand what upstreams and downstreams are affected, what business users are affected. And that actually speeds up all the troubleshooting from hours to minutes. And this is the ultimate goal where we deliver. Because again, my belief that if you don't have this lineage piece was mapped anomalous in errors, it's not observability. It's monitoring. [...] What is also very unique to us, because Masthead operates on logs, it's triggered by logs. So, we do support streaming data. Unlike SQL-first solutions, as you can guess. We don't have to run SQL queries to see if they're anomalous, we’re triggered by logs. And this is also what sets us apart.” – Yuliia Tkachova

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Episode Timestamps:

(01:14): What got Yuliia excited about math and statistics

(11:31): The basic human right to privacy

(18:21): What open source data means to Yuliia

(28:00): Yuliia’s reason for building a solution focused on privacy and security

(38:09): One question Yuliia wishes to be asked

(42:21): Yuliia’s advice for the audience

(44:46): Backstage takeaways with executive producer, Audra Montenegro

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Links:

LinkedIn - Connect with Yuliia

Visit Masthead Data