Data Engineering Central Podcast
Episodes
From Failure to AWS: What Actually Makes a Great Engineer
10 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Victor Moreno went from failing out of a top CS program to becoming a senior engineer at AWS, and his story says a lot about what actually matters in ...
How Real Data Engineers Think (Beyond Tools and Hype)
03 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Yordan Ivanov, Head of Data Engineering at a growing fintech company, to talk...
Data, AI, and DuckDB
27 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Jacob Matson, Developer Advocate at MotherDuck, to unpack one of the most int...
Why I Left Facebook to Work for Myself
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Ben Rogojan to talk about the real story behind data engineering careers, Big...
Academic → CTO: What Actually Matters in Data (Matthew Housley)
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most companies don’t have a tooling problem. They have a foundation problem.In this episode, I sit down with Matthew Housley, a famed co-author of D...
AI Isn’t Replacing Curious Developers
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI isn’t just changing how we write code. It’s changing what it even means to build software.In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podca...
AI Is Changing Data Engineering Fast
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Andreas Kretz to break down what is really happening in the industry right no...
Most Data Teams Are Doing It Wrong
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most data teams think they’re building value. In reality, they’ve become ticket queues.In this episode, Chris Gambill explains his storied career ...
From Industrial Data at BASF to Delta Lake Committer
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Robert Pack walks through his journey from engineering and simulation work to building large-scale data systems across 900+ plants at...
He Quite Apple After 13 Years
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Kevin, who spent 13 years working at Apple before walking away at the end of 2025.* Not t...
Spark, AI, and the Future of Data Engineering with Daniel Aronovich
24 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with the founder of DataFlint, Daniel Aronovich, to talk about the realities of working with ...
DuckDB, AI, and the Future of Data Engineering
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Matt Martin, Staff Engineer, data architect, ETL practitioner, and author of a new book on DuckDB coming soon, to tal...
What Decades in Software Engineering Teaches You
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with a veteran Software Engineer John Crickett; with decades of experience in the industry to ...
Data Engineering, AI, and Career Growth
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Yuki (Yuki Kakegawa) to talk about his journey into tech, the tools and platf...
Spark, Lakehouse & AI: A Deep Conversation with Bart Konieczny
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Data Engineering Central, I sit down with Bart Konieczny — data engineer, distributed systems expert, and well-known author in th...
DevOps vs ClickOps with Maxine Meurer
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Maxine Meurer, DevOps engineer, author, and educator behind I Love DevOps, fo...
The Evolution of Software, Streaming, and Data Engineering with Robin Moffatt
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with industry veteran Robin Moffatt — Sr. Principal Advisor in Streaming Data Technologies (Kafka, etc.) and a longtim...
The Lakehouse Architecture: Multimodal Data, Delta Lake, and the Future of Data Engineering (with R. Tyler Croy)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with R. Tyler Croy for a wide-ranging conversation on the present—and future—o...
Building the Full Data Stack and the Audience That Comes With It
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Hoyt Emerson, founder of The Full Data Stack and Early Signal, for a wide-ran...
From Wiring Circuits to Data Pipelines
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I sit down with Andy Leonard — someone who’s been building systems long before “data en...
From DBA to Data Everything
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast, I interview a Data OG, someone who’s been around the data space forever, and we talked abou...
Scott Haines on the Future of Data Engineering
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Scott Haines — O’Reilly author, Databricks MVP, and veteran of Yahoo, Nike, and Twilio — for a wide-ranging con...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 09
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello! A new episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast is dropping today. We will be covering a few hot topics!* Cluster Fatigue* The Death of O...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - Episode 8
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.comHello! A new episode of the Data Engineering Central ...
Apache Iceberg Rant.
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, my fair-weathered friends and readers! I am gone on vacation this week with my family, probably at this moment lying in the sand on a beach (Lo...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 07
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit dataengineeringcentral.substack.comIt’s time for another episode of the Data Engineeri...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 06
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast. In this episode, we cover …* AWS Lambda + DuckDB and Delta Lake (Polars, Da...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 05
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In todays episode of Data Engineering Central Podcast we talk about a few hot topics, AWS S3 Tables, Databricks raising money, are Data Contracts Dead...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 04
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another episode of the Data Engineering Central Podcast. In this episode we cover …* Apache Airflow vs Databricks Workflows* End-of-...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 03
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for another episode of Data Engineering Central Podcast, our third one! Topics in this episode …* Should you use DuckDB or Polars?* Smal...
Data Engineering Central Podcast - 02
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Data Engineering Central Podcast —— a no-holds-barred discussion on the Data Landscape.Welcome to Episode 02In today’s episode, w...
Data Engineering Central Podcast
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Data Engineering Central Podcast —— a no-holds-barred discussion on the Data Landscape.Welcome to Episode 01 In today’s episode w...