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The Data T

Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi

Previously known as Coffee with Coalesce, The Data T is a monthly podcast hosted by Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi, co-founders of Coalesce, the data transformation company. Each month, we invite industry experts, entrepreneurs, and executives to spill the tea on the data industry"s hottest topics: from data modeling and data ops to AI and LLMs, data engineering trends and predictions, datapreneurship, and more.

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42:18

Gleb Mezhanskiy on Rewriting the Migration Playbook...

The Data T ·

2025/10/30

Data migrations have long been the costly, painful bottleneck of modernization, dragging on for years and carrying multi-million-dollar price tags. But AI is already flipping that script.Gleb Mezhanskiy, founder & CEO of Datafold, who has been deep in the trenches of AI-driven migrations, joins us on the Data T podcast to unpack how AI automation is finally making it realistic to move off entrenched legacy ETL tools. Drawing on his years as a hands-on data engineer and PM (including leading a

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44:58

The AI-Ready Data Team with Erik Duffield

The Data T ·

2025/10/14

This month on The Data T, we sit down with Erik Duffield, CEO and co-founder of Hakkoda, now an IBM Company, to unpack the latest hot topic in our industry: AI-ready data. Everyone’s talking about it, but what does it really take to build an AI-ready data team or data practice?AI-readiness isn’t about the latest tool, it’s about a mindset shift. Duffield shares why data programs must now be designed for machines as primary consumers, how data governance has evolved from a blocker to an enabler, and

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43:58

How AI Made Data Governance Sexy with Pierre Jr Cliche

The Data T ·

2025/09/08

Data governance is far from anyone’s favorite topic, but at Infostrux it’s the superpower behind launching successful AI initiatives. In this episode of the Data T podcast, CEO Pierre Jr Cliche joins Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share how Infostrux rides today’s GenAI wave to get buy-in for data governance projects most execs would otherwise overlook: data cataloging, data lineage, and building data transformation frameworks that turn messy data into governed,

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46:08

Mid-Year Reality Check: Data Predictions With Mike...

The Data T ·

2025/08/04

With 2025 more than halfway over, it’s time to test this year’s bold data forecasts—and look ahead to what’s still coming. On this episode of The Data T, Sigma CEO Mike Palmer joins Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to unpack where data and analytics are really heading in 2025. From rewriting Sigma’s platform on day 30 to calling time on traditional BI “insights,” Palmer explains why the next wave will be AI-powered, end-user apps built on a radically slimmer tool stack—and

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35:34

The Architect of Scale: Ion Stoica on Open Source,...

The Data T ·

2025/07/03

Ion Stoica is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Databricks, and a key architect of the Apache Spark project. Most recently, he’s the Co-Founder of Anyscale, which leverages the open source Ray framework developed in-lab to enable scalable AI workloads, much like Spark revolutionized large-scale data processing.In this episode of The Data T, we chat with Stoica about his illustrious career, how his obsession with solving hard technical problems led

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41:04

Model as You Go: A New Take on BI

The Data T ·

2025/06/09

In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi sit down with Colin Zima, co-founder and CEO of Omni, to talk about what it takes to reinvent business intelligence. Colin shares his journey from Looker’s early days to building Omni, the lessons learned along the way, and his philosophy of ruthless pragmatism when it comes to data modeling, product development, and AI. The conversation dives deep into the evolving BI landscape, the importance of semantics in AI, and how

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33:04

Data Therapy in the Age of Relentless Innovation and AI

The Data T ·

2025/05/08

In this episode of The Data T podcast, Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi talk with Nicho Mann, founder and CEO of Stratos Consulting, about the emotional and operational challenges facing data professionals today. Nicho introduces the idea of “data therapy” — a way to talk about the mounting pressure, backlog, and burnout that teams are experiencing as AI hype accelerates. With firsthand stories from the biotech and pharmaceutical space, he explains how many companies are overwhelmed,

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45:19

AI-Driven Data Catalogs

The Data T ·

2025/04/03

Fresh off the announcement of Coalesce acquiring AI-driven data catalog company CastorDoc, now Coalesce Catalog, co-founders Tristan Mayer and Xavier de Boisredon join the Data T podcast to talk about how it all came together, why his marks a major shift in the industry, how the Modern Data Stack is evolving, and what’s next.The conversation highlights both companies’ shared vision of making data governance simpler, more intuitive, and embedded early in the data lifecycle. The founders break down

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46:26

Data Hot Takes with Joe Reis

The Data T ·

2025/04/01

In this episode of The Data T, Joe Reis returns to discuss his journey since his last appearance on our podcast. We chat about the lasting impact of his book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering, and his latest focus on data modeling. Data modeling is the focus of Joe’s upcoming book, Practical Data Modeling, which he is writing publicly on his Substack.We also explore broader industry trends, including the hype around AI, the resurgence of data governance, and shifting perspectives on data modeling

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30:02

2025 Data Predictions with Tejas Manohar

The Data T ·

2025/01/24

Welcome to the Data T! In our first podcast episode for 2025, hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi chat with Tejas Manohar, co-CEO and co-founder of Hightouch, about his predictions for the year ahead. The conversation covers the top trends in generative AI, customer engagement, and data infrastructure, with a deep dive into AI Decisioning, the latest innovation from Hightouch that uses continuous experimentation and reinforcement learning to optimize marketing strategies. Manohar provides

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40:08

SAP Migrations with David Richert and Edwin Commandeur

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2024/12/13

In the final episode of Coffee with Coalesce for 2024, we travel to Europe to chat with David Richert, SAP Modernization Evangelist and Principal Sales Engineer at Snowflake, and Edwin Commandeur, Principal Field Product Manager (SAP) at Fivetran, about the challenges and innovations in data management and migration, particularly in the context of SAP systems.Hosted by Damien Walker and Glen Dawson, the conversation explores the benefits of shifting from application-centric to data-centric

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42:28

Data Orchestration with Hugo Lu

The Data T ·

2024/11/18

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Hugo Lu, CEO and founder of Orchestra, joins hosts Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi to share the company’s founding story, discuss the challenges of building and selling an orchestration platform in an already crowded data space, his predictions on the main trends in data for 2025, and more. Listen to the full episode to find out more about:Orchestra’s founding storyChallenges in data orchestrationThe importance of data governanceEnabling a successful

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47:14

Semantic Layer Innovation with Artyom Keydunov and...

The Data T ·

2024/10/29

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Cube co-founders Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov discuss their journey with Cube, from starting out as a side project to a successful company that recently raised its Series B funding round. The discussion touches on Cube’s founding story, innovating the semantic layer with a universal approach, and their data management strategy. Listen to the full episode for more on:Cube’s founding story: The company’s origins as an open-source project focused on

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47:47

The Modern Data Stack with Taylor Brown

The Data T ·

2024/10/04

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, Taylor Brown, COO and co-founder of Fivetran, shares the origin story of the company and how Fivetran has helped pioneer the Modern Data Stack. Taylor dives into the challenges of building Fivetran, the company’s mission to make data as accessible and reliable as electricity, and the impact of their innovations on the data industry.In this episode:The origin of Fivetran and its mission to simplify data ingestionsThe origin of the Modern Data StackData

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49:47

Data Mesh with Una Galyeva

The Data T ·

2024/08/23

We’re excited to welcome Una Galyeva, Data & AI Consultant with Honest Data and AI Consulting, to chat about data mesh.Topics covered in this episode include the reality of data mesh implementations vs the theoretical concepts, use cases where implementing data mesh makes sense, assembling the right team for a successful transition to a data mesh structure, and more.Hosted by Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

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44:06

The Future of BI with Rob Woollen

The Data T ·

2024/07/16

In the latest episode of our data podcast, we welcome Rob Woollen, Co-founder and CTO of Sigma Computing, to chat about the future of BI, the journey of developing Sigma, finding product market fit, and the company’s success. In this episode you'll hear Rob's take on:the future of spreadsheets and SQLaddressing the largest bottlenecks in analytics use casesthe impact of Gen AI and LLMs on BIchallenges in AI interface designthe potential of AI for productivity, and more.

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42:04

The 10X Data Engineer with Gu Xie

The Data T ·

2024/05/28

In this episode of the Coffee with Coalesce podcast, we chat with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001, about the secret to building highly performant data engineering teams. Hint: It’s not about finding super-talented, highly-skilled professionals that are 10x more productive than their peers. Rather, it’s about enabling developer velocity: creating an environment where every engineer can be highly productive, and enabling them with the tools and platforms that are pivotal to that

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45:58

Investing in Data and AI Startups with Joe Floyd and...

The Data T ·

2024/05/03

In this episode of Coffee with Coalesce, we chat with Joe Floyd, General Partner at Emergence Capital, and Saad Siddiqui, General Partner at Telstra Ventures. Venture capital plays a pivotal role in guiding new companies and technologies to market, and our guests have had a first-row seat to the fast and furious growth and innovation happening in the industry over the past decade.Ten years ago hardly anyone had heard of Snowflake. Just two years ago, LLMs were an obscure acronym known only to those

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46:13

Delivering on the Promise of the Modern Data Stack...

The Data T ·

2024/03/25

We’re excited to welcome Kashish Gupta, co-founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the number-one composable customer data platform (CDP) that is revolutionizing the way marketers activate their data. From semantic layers to taking advantage of cloud-native data warehouse architectures, tune in and bring your questions for our guest and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and Satish Jayanthi.

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58:09

Data Modeling and AI with John Cosgrove and Kent...

The Data T ·

2024/02/22

We’re excited to welcome John Cosgrove and Kent Graziano to tackle the age-old topics of data management and data modeling in the new age of AI and LLMs. How can you get onboard the AI hype train and not end up in a train wreck? What if setting yourself up for success in the future depends more than ever on “old” ideas like hierarchies, semantics, models, taxonomies… in short, structure? Tune in to hear more and bring your questions for our guests and hosts, Coalesce co-founders Armon Petrossian and

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