Viraj Parekh

Co-founder & Field CTO, Astronomer · 1 appearance on the record.

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Viraj Parekh is a co-founder and Field CTO at Astronomer, an enterprise data orchestration platform built around Apache Airflow. He helped guide the company's early pivot from an analytics tool to an Airflow-focused platform, helping scale the company past $1M ARR and raise over $350 million in venture financing.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Apache Airflow was created in 2014 at Airbnb

“Airflow was founded in 2014 at Airbnb, and it's an absolutely viral open source project.”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 3:26 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

What they said6 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Cloud data warehouses enabled modern multi-tool data architectures

“Architectures like this really have only become possible with the rise of folks like Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, and this idea that as a data practitioner, I can have infinite compute at the kind of tips of my fingers without having to go outsid…”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 2:20 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Insight

Bypassing Git simplifies source control for non-software data teams

“The fact that I can take my skill set and have a source controlled pipeline without actually having to learn Git makes all the downstream people on my team's lives so much easier because they know exactly what I did and what I changed and they still get that r…”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 15:18 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Insight

Seeing manipulated data directly increases data engineer productivity

“I just think that as a data engineer, if you have to actually go ahead and maintain a pipeline, being able to see the actual data manipulated really increases your productivity.”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 18:41 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Opinion

Data scientists do the 'sexiest work' on data teams

“And lastly, you know, your data scientists who, in my opinion, are kind of doing the sexiest work when making business predictions based off of data, their needs are also different.”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 5:52 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Assertion Supported

Apache Airflow was created in 2014 at Airbnb

“Airflow was founded in 2014 at Airbnb, and it's an absolutely viral open source project.”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 3:26 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Astronomer has grown to roughly 350 remote-first employees

“I think we're around 350 people now, give or take. We have folks in New York, London, San Francisco, India, and kind of all over remote first.”

Viraj Parekh Oct 10, 2022 ▶ 20:43 Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Modern Data Orchestration \| Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh	Oct 10, 2022	8m

Viraj Parekh

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