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Self-Service Data Culture with Stemma’s Mark Grover

Apr 7, 2023

The podcast discusses the importance of data catalogs in modern data culture, highlighting the challenges of managing data in the cloud era. The creation of Stemma from Lyft's data management issues is explored, along with insights on architecting information schema metadata systems. Additionally, the episode touches on the entrepreneurial journey and the significance of data velocity.

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Quick takeaways

Data catalogs are crucial for indexing company datasets and schemas.

Growing data teams necessitate a larger market for data catalog solutions.

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Data Teams and the Growing Market for Data Catalogs

The podcast episode discusses the increasing importance of data catalogs in providing an index into a company's datasets and schemas. With data teams expanding, there is a surge in the demand for data catalogs. Mark, the CEO of Stemma and co-creator of Anmunzen, shares his experience and insights in developing a modern data catalog based on his background as a software developer, data engineer, and product leader at Lyft.

Introduction

2min

Navigating the Complexities of Modern Data Management in the Cloud Era

7min

Unveiling the Genesis of Stemma and Data Management Challenges at Lyft

2min

Navigating Data Management Challenges in Organizations

4min

Architecting an Information Schema Metadata System

26min

Velocity in Data and Entrepreneurial Journey

5min

A data catalog provides an index into the data sets and schemas of a company.Data teams are growing in size, and more companies than ever have a data team, so the market for data catalog is larger than ever.

Mark is the CEO of Stemma and the co-creator of Amundsen, a data catalog that came out of Lyft. In today’s show Mark shares how his history as a software developer, data engineer and product leader at Lyft have helped him create a vision for a modern data catalog.

Starting her career as a software developer, Jocelyn Houle is now a Senior Director of Product Management at Securit.ai, a unified data protection and governance platform. Before that, she was an Operating Partner at Capital One Ventures investing in data and AI startups. Jocelyn has been a founder of two startups and a full life cycle, technical product manager at large companies like Fannie Mae, Microsoft and Capital One. Follow Jocelyn on Linkedin or Twitter @jocelynbyrne

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