The Data Standard

Making data engineers the heroes of their companies with Soumyadeb Mitra

Soumyadeb Mitra, Founder & CEO at RudderStack, sits down with TDS to talk about what RudderStack does.

Episode Summary

RudderStack is an open-source Customer Data Infrastructure for collecting and routing your customer data for analytics. With a special focus on data privacy, security, and reliability, RudderStack is enterprise-ready and gives you the flexibility of transforming your event data to suit your business requirements. In this interview with TDS, Soumyadeb Mitra – the founder, and CEO of RudderStack – talks about the Customer Data Infrastructure space, making data engineers the heroes of their companies and RudderStack.

Meet The Host

Josh Odmark

CTO - Founder at Pandio

Expert in front-end and back-end software engineering with PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, HTML, CSS, Apache Pulsar, BookKeeper, Zookeeper, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Presto, and Redis. Full-stack engineer with experience in dev ops, data science, distributed systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, leadership, project management, and product management. Currently building our data-driven future with Pandio.

Meet The Guest

Soumyadeb Mitra

Founder & CEO at RudderStack

Soumyadeb is the founder and CEO of RudderStack, a company which he started in June 2019. Soumyadeb is a serial entrepreneur, RudderStack being his 3rd startup. He sold his previous startup, a B2B ad-tech platform called MarianaIQ, to 8×8 where he spent a year building customer data pipelines. His challenges collecting and processing customer data at enterprise scale at 8×8 inspired him to start RudderStack. Soumyadeb has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the second best thesis in the field of DataBase by ACM. He has an undergraduate degree from IIT Delhi.