141: A Journey From Backend Engineer to Data Engineer with Ioannis Foukarakis of Mattermost

The Data Stack Show

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Ioannis’ background and journey in data (2:42)
• Rudderstack’s transformations feature and examples of its application (4:20)
• Winning the transformations contest at Rudderstack (7:21)
• How Ioannis’ transformation project works for data governance (9:40)
• Memories from college for Ioannis and Kostas (12:30)
• Getting into the world of software development (17:27)
• The changes in data and engineering over the years (20:29)
• Bridging java with python (23:15)
• Dealing with ML workloads in the past vs. workflows of today (26:30)
• Data engineers and ML engineers (33:12)
• Dealing with data in the early stages to ensure reliability later on (38:39)
• What creates problems with data quality? (42:11)
• Exciting developments in data engineering (46:48)
• Final thoughts and takeaways (51:12)

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