The Soda Podcast

The Soda Podcast brings forward different voices and perspectives to help find a common ground to solve the problems that many are facing when it comes to good data. This is a collection of conversations focused on data, and the tools, technologies, methodologies, and people that use it every day.

The series now available is ‘The Data Dream Team’. Hear guests in conversation on the new approach needed to align how an organization and its people should be structured and organized around data. Visit dreamteam.soda.io for complementary content and resources.

S2 E01 In Conversation with FirstParty at Club Soda New York

Dec 13, 2023

This episode of Club Soda features the data team of FirstParty, recorded live at a speakeasy in downtown New York, where data teams and practitioners gathered.

The topic is data products and the conversation centers on FirstParty's mission to provide businesses with the capabilities to maximise the value of their data...

S1 Ep 08 In Conversation With Ramón Medrano: From Site Reliability Engineering to Data Reliability Engineering

Oct 26, 2022

Maarten is in conversation with Ramón Medrano, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google.

In this conversation Maarten and Ramón discuss how the principles and practices of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can be applied to the practices of Data Reliability Engineering and data quality management. They...

S1 Ep 07 In Conversation With Ramón Medrano: The Meet and Greet

Oct 21, 2022

Meet Ramón Medrano, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google. Inspired by the book, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, our host Maarten will explore and discuss how the practice of using software to automate IT infrastructure tasks such as system management and...

S2 Ep 020 Data Dream Team: Enabling The People, Enabling The Data with Kulani Likotsi

Oct 14, 2022

Kulani Likotsi is Head of Data Management and Data Governance at one of the big four African banks, headquartered in South Africa. Kulani is curious and practical. As an individual she seizes every opportunity to learn, adapt, and grow. As a leader she is focused on people and enabling every one as an individual, to be...

S2 Ep 019 Data Dream Team: Meet Kulani Likotsi, Head of Data Management and Data Governance

Oct 11, 2022

Meet Kulani Likotsi, Head of Data Management and Data Governance at one of the big four African banks, headquartered in South Africa. Kulani’s career spans from being a developer and analyst in the technical team, and growing into the head of a team in the business. Get to know Kulani ahead of her conversation with...