Data Renegades

Ep. #14, Databases for Humans and Agents with Hannes Mühleisen

On episode 14 of Data Renegades, CL Kao speaks with Hannes Mühleisen, co-creator of DuckDB, about building databases that people actually want to use. Hannes explains how

Ep. #13, Building Trillion-Scale Data Pipelines with Josh Wills

On episode 13 of Data Renegades, CL Kao sits down with Josh Wills to explore how AI agents are reshaping software engineering, data science, and data infrastructure. They

Ep. #12, Agent Orchestration at Scale with Maxime Beauchemin

On episode 12 of Data Renegades, CL Kao sits down with Maxime Beauchemin to explore what happens when software teams start working alongside armies of AI agents. Max shar

Ep. #11, Contrarian Bets and AI Skepticism with Michael Stonebraker

On episode 11 of Data Renegades, CL Kao sits down with Michael Stonebraker, legendary database pioneer and creator of Ingres and Postgres. They explore the origins of mod

Ep. #10, Data Modeling Matters Most with Toby Mao

On episode 10 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Toby Mao. They explore how real-world data problems at Netflix and Airbnb led to the creation of SQL

Ep. #9, Radical Accountability in Software with Wes McKinney

On episode 9 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Wes McKinney, creator of Pandas and co-creator of Apache Arrow. They explore how AI coding agents are

Ep. #8, One Human Plus Agents with Scott Breitenother

On episode 8 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Scott Breitenother to explore how AI is reshaping the modern data stack and redefining the role of da

Ep. #7, Truth-Seeking Data Systems with Bryan Bischof

On episode 7 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Bryan Bischof to explore his journey from pure mathematics to building real-world ML systems. They di

Ep. #6, From Big Data to Curiosity-Driven Insight with Roger Magoulas

On episode 6 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson speak with Roger Magoulas about the real bottlenecks holding data organizations back. From the origins of “big data

Ep. #5, The Identity Crisis of BI with Benn Stancil

On episode 5 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Benn Stancil to explore how data tools evolve, and sometimes lose their identity. Benn shares lessons

Ep. #4, Streaming Made Practical with Micah Wylde

In episode 4 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Micah Wylde. They trace his journey from building fraud detection at Sift Science to architecting mas

Ep. #3, Building Tools That Shape Data with Maxime Beauchemin

On episode 3 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson sit down with Maxime Beauchemin. They explore the origins of Airflow and Superset, the evolution of open source in

Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison

In episode 2 of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson speak with Simon Willison. Together they dive into the origins of Datasette, the evolution of data journalism, and

Ep. #1, Introducing Data Renegades

In this debut episode of Data Renegades, CL Kao and Dori Wilson dive into the unconventional paths that led them into developer tools, civic tech, and machine learning sy