#dataoncloud

Data on Cloud is a technology podcast for Cloud DW implementation

We feature data leaders who bring the best practices and Cloud Data Warehouse.

Featured Podcasts

Customer Voice- Mike Bensoussan, Getaround

In this podcast, Mike shares her experiences with Snowflake including:

  • The challenges they were facing with Redshift for them to move to snowflake Integration
  • Architecture of their analytics platform and type of analytics bring done
  • JBest practices and learning from implementing Snowflake data platform

Mike is VP Engineering at Getaround – a connected car sharing company. He has extensive experience in working at internet companies.

Customer Voice- Lisa Aguilera, DriveTime

In this podcast, Lisa Aguilera shares her experiences with Snowflake including:
  • Why they moved from Microsoft stack to Snowflake.
  • How they are integrating different types of data from 40-50 applications
  • Journey of migration to Snowflake and the roadmap ahead
Lisa is the director of business intelligence at DriveTime. Headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, DriveTime is the largest privately owned used car sales and finance company in the country.

Customer Voice- John Pattison, Redwood

In this podcast, John Pattison shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
  • Challenges with the old architecture that lead them to adopt Snowflake
  • How they ingest large amount of data in real-time and the type of analytics being done
  • Top features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
John is the architect at Redwood supply chain solutions and has extensive experience in Logistics systems and analytics.

Customer Voice- John Adams, Powerchord

In this podcast, John Adams shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
  • Why he chose Snowflake in the current and previous SaaS companies.
  • How they are integrating marketing data and doing extensive analytics including predictive modelling.
  • Key features of Snowflake that they found very useful
PJohn is the CTO at PowerChord and previously CTO at Bringhub – both SaaS companies. He has extensive technical expertise in building data and SaaS platforms.

Customer Voice- Pedro Martins, OutSystems

In this podcast, Pedro Martins shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
  • Why they chose Snowflake for their EDW platform
  • How they are integrating data in real-time from multiple cloud systems
  • Very interesting features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
Pedro is Manager of Data Engineering at OutSystems which is a low code development platform. Pedro and his team has built a very interesting data lake integrating a lot of systems.

Customer Voice- Oliver Loeffler, Kolibri Games

In this podcast, Oliver shares his experiences with Snowflake including
  • What challenges they were facing with SQL server that they had to move to Snowflake
  • How they are integrating large amounts of gaming data and analytics done.
  • Share learnings and best practices
Oliver is the CTO and Co-Founder of Kolibri Games which as the name suggests makes exciting video games. They collect a huge amount of gaming data to understand the user behaviour and do a lot of interesting analytics.

Customer Voice- Michal Klos, Indigo

In this podcast, Michal explains about handling 8PB of data for analytics
  • How he was able get sub-sec response on such large amount of data
  • What kind of performance techniques he used
  • Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings in managing large amounts of data
Michal is the Senior Director of Engineering at Indigo where he is managing a data platform for Agriculture data. Prior to this he was with Localytics where they collected 8PB of data from billions of Mobile devices

Customer Voice- Michael Hammer, Bio-RAD

In this podcast, Michael Hammer shares his experiences with Snowflake including:
  • Their evaluation methodology of comparing various cloud DW platforms
  • How they are integrating data in real-time from multiple systems like SAP
  • Very interesting features of Snowflake that helped them a lot
Michael is the Senior Manager, Analytics at Bio-Rad – a healthcare diagnostics company. He has built a very interesting analytics platform on Snowflake catering to more than 100 countries

Customer Voice- Robert Bakos, Higi

In this podcast, Robert Bakos shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including:
  • Why they had to migrate from SQL server to Snowflake
  • What type of analytics in being done in medical data
  • Key features of Snowflake they found most helpful like Snowpipe, db share etc.
  • Implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Robert is the CTO at Higi – A consumer healthcare start-up. At Higi he and his team has built a very interesting data platform integrating a lot of medical data from 10000 kiosks.

Customer Voice- Dave Withers PIMCO

In this podcast, Dave shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including
  • Why they had to migrate from MongoDB to Redshift to Snowflake !
  • What type of analytics in being done in IOT data from GPS systems
  • Why type of data security has been implemented for secure financial data on cloud.
  • Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Dave is the VP-data architecture at PIMCO where he is leading a EDW implementation program. Earlier he was Senior Director at Spireon where he implemented a very interesting data warehouse with IOT data.

Customer Voice- Robert Parviainen - Seriously Digital Entertainment

In this podcast, Robert his experiences with Snowflake including
  • How do they inject large amount of gaming data in Snowflake
  • The business impact of implementing Snowflake data lake
  • Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Robert is Senior VP of data science at Seriously Digital Entertainment. Seriously is into making video games which generates a lot of gaming data and lot of very interesting analytics is done on that.

Customer Voice- Avinash Deshpande, Logitech

In this podcast, Avinash shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including
  • Why they had to migrate to Snowflake from another cloud platform just within 1 year!
  • What use cases they have implemented on Snowflake and what is the roadmap
  • Business benefits of their Snowflake implementation
  • What features of Snowflake helped them the most
Avinash is the head of architecture for data solutions at Logitech. He has extensive experience in building data platforms across technologies like Snowflake, Redshift, Teradata etc. He brings is a very unique perspective of their Snowflake journey at Logitech

Customer Voice- Kai Wolffram, Tui Hotels

In this podcast, Kai Wolffram shares his interesting journey of implementing Snowflake Data warehouse including:
  • His experience of evaluating cloud DW technologies and why he chose Snowflake
  • How they handled critical implementation elements like, architecture, data security
  • Business benefits of their Snowflake implementation
  • Share implementation experiences, best practices and learnings
Kai Wolffram is the Head of Analytics & Hotel Technology for TUI, the world’s largest travel company. He is responsible for the complete value chain of Analytics across all Hotel brands. Kai and his team were one of the first customers to start a Snowflake project in Germany about 3 years ago.

Why Snowflake is on the rise ?

This episode features a discussion with Dinesh Jain, CEO of Kloutix. Dinesh has deep experience in various data warehouse platform and is helping multiple clients in their snowflake implementations.
In this podcast he explains how the data platforms have evolved over time and why Snowflake is growing so fast. He also explains why this data on snow platform has been started and how it will help all practitioners of snowflake.