Four Hashmap on Tap Guests Named Snowflake Data Superheroes
Congrats to James Weakley, Richie Bachala, Serge Gershkovich, and Sonny Rivera for being selected to this elite group.
Did you see the list of recent nominees that were named Snowflake’s Data Superheroes? Snowflake’s Data Superheroes are described as “an elite group of Snowflake experts who are highly active in the community. . . helping to educate others by sharing knowledge, tips, and best practices, both online and in-person.”
We were so excited to see not one, but four of our guests from Hashmap on Tap were recognized and wanted to give them and their episodes a shoutout! Each one of our Snowflake Data Superhero guests shared fantastic advice and experience, and you can check out a bit more about each episode below.
James Weakley — Hashmap on Tap Episode #114
James Weakley Co-Founder of Omnata, joined Hashmap on Tap host Kelly Kohlleffel on this episode to discuss the challenges he faced while working at nib, a publicly listed healthcare insurer, and how those challenges lead to him developing the solution that would become Omnata. He goes further into detail about how Omnata developed, their GTM strategy, and how he got started from an agriculture technology background.
Richie Bachala — Hashmap on Tap Episode #61
Richie Bachala, the Global Data Engineering Manager at Sherwin-Williams, joined Kelly on this episode to discuss the cloud, Snowflake, and Oracle migrations. They talked about what types of challenges come with managing and delivering cloud-based data as a service solution for over 11,000 data consumers across the company and how migrating from Oracle has positively impacted the business.
Serge Gershkovich — Hashmap on Tap Episode #51
Serge Gershkovich is currently a Data Architect with SqlDBM. At the time he joined Kelly Kohlleffel for protein shakes on the podcast, he was the BI Solution Architect at Hotelbeds. In this episode, he shares his thoughts and perspectives on how moving from SAP BW to Snowflake accelerated Hotelbeds’ ability to deliver data products. He recounts the experience and discusses the value gained through the journey.
Sonny Rivera — Hashmap on Tap Episode #23
Sonny Rivera, the Director of Data Delivery at Ally Financial, chatted with Randy Pitcher about the beginnings of using data, real-time data collection, and barbecuing with an IoT thermometer.
Hashmap considers it an honor to have had these exciting data leaders on our podcast. Congratulations again on this achievement — we can’t wait to see what they have in store for us this year. Check out more of the community here!
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