Episode
SE Radio 696: Flavia Saldanha on Data Engineering for AI
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Nov 25, 2025 · 1 h 14 min
Flavia Saldanha , a consulting data engineer, joins host Kanchan Shringi to discuss the evolution of data engineering from ETL (extract, transform, load) and data lakes to modern lakehouse architectures enriched with vector databases and embeddings. Flavia explains the industry's shift from treating data as a service to treating it as a product, emphasizing ownership, trust, and business context…