🎙️ Who is Dipankar Mazumdar?

Dipankar is a passionate Data Engineering and Data Science Advocate and a community-focused individual currently working at Dremio. His primary focus is to assist engineering teams in building and scaling robust data platforms using open-source solutions like Apache Iceberg, Apache Arrow & Project Nessie. Dipankar strongly advocates data practitioners about Dremio's Lakehouse platform. Besides, he also led the R&D Advocacy team at Qlik, where he worked on key developer strategies and educated the worldwide developer community in the area of Machine Learning/Visualization. Dipankar has a keen interest in the field of Visual Analytics research, and his latest work was on Explainability of Ensemble Models using multidimensional projection techniques. Being exposed to different roles in the past, some of his key projects include implementing visualization solutions, developing production-ready supervised & unsupervised Machine Learning algorithms, evaluation and deployment of Visual Analytics solutions, and explaining ML algorithms. Dipankar believes in prioritizing core concepts and focusing on business problems over technology, and he has vast experience in incorporating open Lakehouse architecture into data warehousing.

💡 In this episode...

In this episode we discuss his passion for data and technology, his journey from Big Data Engineering to Developer Advocacy, and the benefits and challenges of Cloud Data Lakes for Compute Engines. He also highlights the Evolution of Big Data and the challenges of incorporating machine learning and streaming into data warehousing, advocating for an open Lakehouse architecture. Dipankar also provides practical applications for Apache Iceberg and shares his insights from real-world experience on how to enhance data platform functionality with seamless integration of Apache Iceberg. He also discusses the challenges of adopting new technology in big companies and identifies key factors for a successful cloud migration strategy implementation. He prioritizes core concepts and business problems over technology and advocates for focusing on core concepts over tools.

Dipankar Mazumdar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dipankar-mazumdar/
Thomas Bustos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbustos/

Artistic Direction & Video: Maxence Kerhoas

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