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Data Engineering Central Podcast

by Data Engineering in Real Life · English

Long Live the Data Engineer. No holds barred. Talking about Data Engineering news, topics, and general mayhem. dataengineeringcentral.substack.com

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AI Is Changing Software Engineering Forever | Gregor Ojstersek

How AI changes software engineering, hiring, and career paths—arguing engineers must shift from “code output” to leverage, fundamentals, communication, and ownership.

11 Nov 2026 · 54m · 19 chapters

Life After Big Tech

Life after leaving Big Tech, using backpacking lessons to rethink job security, financial planning, and adaptability amid AI-driven layoffs.

4 Nov 2026 · 50m · 24 chapters

AI Is a Mirror: MLOps, LLMOps & the Future of AI Engineering | Maria Vechtomova

Maria Vechtomova discusses “AI as a mirror” for engineering maturity—why MLOps/LLMOps must ensure reproducibility, observability, evaluation, and governance, and how LLM workflows add non-determinism…

30 Sep 2026 · 50m · 28 chapters

The Future of Data Engineering in the Age of AI | Erfan Hesami

The future of data engineering with AI—how data platforms and pipelines will change, what skills remain essential, and why governance/monitoring become critical for agentic systems.

16 Sep 2026 · 47m · 18 chapters

Big Tech Laid Him Off. He Realized He Didn’t Need a Job. — Asian Dad Energy

A laid-off Big Tech software engineer (AsianDadEnergy) recounts his career path, a high-stress pre-layoff project involving an open-source framework bug, and how he coped financially and mentally…

9 Sep 2026 · 49m · 22 chapters

Spark Isn't Going Anywhere. So They Rebuilt It in Rust. — Shehab Amin, CEO of LakeSail

LakeSail CEO Shehab Amin discusses rebuilding Apache Spark and Apache Rust for the AI era, turning data pipelines into AI pipelines.

2 Sep 2026 · 57m · 29 chapters