Building a Community Around DataOps-driven ELT with Douwe Maan, Founder & CEO of Meltano
Hashmap on Tap Ep. 99
“Code review, end-to-end testing, and version control are exactly why we call Meltano, ELT for the DataOps era because we believe that the data space will be benefiting in massive ways from all of the work we’re doing to bring DevOps to data in the form of DataOps.” — Douwe Maan, Founder and CEO of Meltano
Meltano, an open-source data integration and transformation platform, originally began as an internal project within GitLab. They became an independent startup in early 2021 and raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV. Today, Meltano has over 5,000 active projects every month and supports data integration connectors for almost 300 sources and destinations.
On a recent episode of the Hashmap on Tap podcast, Douwe Maan, Founder and CEO of Meltano, joins host Kelly Kohlleffel from his home base in Mexico City to discuss how they cultivated a community around DataOps-driven ELT. His story began at GitLab as one of the first 10 employees all way to today where Meltano, an internal project, spun out of GitLab to deliver an open-source, DataOps-driven ELT solution.
Douwe and Kelly kick off the episode and say, “proost!” (cheers in Dutch) over a few European beers — a Belgian white beer, Hoegaarden Wit, for Douwe, and a German beer, Hacker Pschorr, for Kelly.
Hear Dowe’s perspectives on:
- The challenges Meltano faced in the company’s early years
- How Meltano raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by GV
- Why he strongly believes building open-source software will create the best possible product for users
- How Meltano brings data teams together and includes them in their product decision-making processes
- The advantages of using Singer for data connectors
- Meltano’s future plans for monetization
- Why everyone can benefit from Metadata tooling
- His favorite things to experience in Mexico City
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