Flavia Saldanha

Flavia Saldanha, a consulting data engineer and architect specializing in AI readiness, joins to discuss the evolution of data engineering. She highlights the shift from treating data as a service to a product, stressing the importance of ownership and context. Flavia explains modern lakehouse architectures and the integration of vector databases to manage unstructured data for AI. She emphasizes the need for data engineers to embrace product thinking, governance, and NLP skills, positioning AI as an augmenting co-pilot rather than a replacement.