Self-Service Data Culture with Stemma’s Mark Grover

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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