#99 Utilizing a High-Performance Analytics Database with Irina Farooq – Chief Product Officer

Irina is Chief Product Officer for Kinetica. Irina has over a decade of product management experience across a variety of sectors, including enterprise software, networking, hardware, IoT, SaaS, and Cloud. Irina joins Kinetica from Riverbed Technology, where she held a variety of leadership roles including Vice President of Products and Strategy for the Service Provider Business and Vice President of Product Management for Steelhead, Riverbed's flagship product.

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We speak about:

[00:30] About Irina Farooq

[01:20] How did you get started in data?

[02:50] Why did you switch from engineering to product management?

[03:50] What did your career look like after switching to product management?

[04:35] How did you learn the craft of being a product manager?

[06:20] What type of products were you working on at the time?

[08:10] What kept you going during the tough times?

[11:25] What has your career looked like after Oracle?

[16:00] What challenges did you help customers overcome?

[18:15] How do the improvements work?

[19:50] What is feature engineering?

[24:15] How do you manage the lifecycle of operational models?

[30:45] What type of information do you keep track of?

[31:20] About Kinetica

[34:00] What does a day on the job look like?

[35:00] What are your biggest challenges?

[37:00] Why did Kinetica decide to go to Australia?

[39:30] How does tiered storage work?

[42:15] How much has the platform changed?

[44:45] What are you most proud of?

[49:00] What do you think about challenges in the data space?

[50:00] What is a piece of advice for the listeners?

Resources:

Irina’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinafarooq/

Kinetica: https://www.kinetica.com

Kinetica on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kineticahq

Kinetica on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kinetica/

Kinetica on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/kineticadb/

Quotes:

“Learning and self-improvement kept me going during the tough times.”

“The biggest transformation has been being deployed in some of the world’s largest enterprises.”

“Figure out what your superpowers are and focus on those things.”

“You can’t just fit the mold with everything.”

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