Will AI replace data engineers? 🔥Why Data Engineering Still Matters in the Age of GenAI, AutoML & AI Agents. Host Kuldeep Singh interviews senior data engineer Meghana Ashok Ganatra on why data engineering remains critical despite hype around LLMs, GenAI, AutoML, and AI agents. Meghana explains that AI outputs depend on reliable, consistent data pipelines, and bad data can cause costly and harmful decisions, illustrated with a healthcare misdiagnosis example. They discuss how the data engineer role has expanded beyond ETL to working with data scientists on deployment, governance, and reliability, noting that “AI is the new electricity” still needs infrastructure. Meghana shares an EV telemetry case study migrating from Azure Synapse to Databricks to address terabytes of per-minute charger data, reducing costs and improving scalability and performance, using Unity Catalog for governance, handling schema drift, and enabling self-serve insights with Databricks dashboards and Genie.Time Stamps:00:00 Precaps00:55 Meet the Guest Meghana02:38 Bad Data Real Consequences04:37 Data Engineering vs AI Engineering06:45 Healthcare Example High Stakes09:24 EV Telemetry Scaling Challenges09:58 Synapse vs Databricks Migration14:12 Governance Schema and Photon18:21 Self Serve Analytics with Genie23:21 Technical Debt Before Migration26:32 Future EV Data and V2G29:16 Career Advice Foundations First33:13 Wrap Up and Final ThoughtsConnect with Techie Talks with Kuldeep:YouTube Channel: @techietalkswithkuldeep WhatsApp Channel: https://www.whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb7Q4JHAjPXUt8hBgm2TLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techietalkswithkuldeepFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574642927780Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techietalkswithkuldeepLearn more about Meghana Ashok GanatraLinkedin :https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghana-ashok-ganatra/Subscribe to the channel for more conversations with the people building tomorrow's technology.#ai #machinelearning #futureofwork #futureofai #dataengineering #aipodcast #techpodcast #techietalkswithkuldeep data engineering, AI replace jobs, data engineer, data pipeline, bronze silver gold data engineering, data engineering podcast, will AI replace data engineers, EV data analytics, data engineer interview