The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: From Data Engineer to Data Entrepreneur with Solomon Kahn of Delivery Layer and Top Data People

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guests and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. We are here with Solomon Kahn from Delivery Layer and Top Data People. We're going to talk about both of those. Solomon, welcome to the Data Stack Show. Thank you so much.

All right, give us just a high level overview. And one thing I'd love is for you to just do quick hits on all the different things you've done, because that's going to be so fun to dig into when we dive in. But give us the flyover. All right, I'll do the flyover quick hit version. I have been data leader for a while, both at tiny startups where I was the data team of one to large publicly traded companies where I managed a hundred plus

person team and owned the P and L of a reasonably sized data business that actually sold data as a product. I worked at startups and I've done every data job there is and excited to talk about that on the show. All right, so Solomon, we talked about a number of things before we hit record here. One of the ones I wanna dig in on is this client facing reporting.

I know that one of the projects you're working on right now is trying to tackle that issue. It's complex, it's fun, this client-facing reporting. professional development as a data person, how do you do impactful work? I think there's a lot of things for us to talk through. Awesome. Well, let's dig in and get to it. Yeah, let's do it. All right. That's a wrap for the prequel. The full length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.