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title: "Jerel Navarrete - MotherDuck Blog"
description: "Jerel joins us on the Marketing team to help spread the word about MotherDuck and DuckDB. Previously, he helped build the product-led growth motion at Confluent and scaled marketing operations at Microsoft."
canonical: "https://motherduck.com/authors/jerel-navarrete/"
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# Jerel Navarrete

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Growth Marketer

Jerel joins us on the Marketing team to help spread the word about MotherDuck and DuckDB. Previously, he helped build the product-led growth motion at Confluent and scaled marketing operations at Microsoft.

## 12 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[1:00:17](/videos/ducklake-architecture-deep-dive/)[2026-07-09](/videos/ducklake-architecture-deep-dive/)

### [The Database Inside Your Lakehouse: A DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive](/videos/ducklake-architecture-deep-dive/)

See inside DuckLake's architecture: a SQL database catalog, Parquet storage, and pluggable compute that cut metadata latency to milliseconds.

Webinar

SQL

MotherDuck Features

[2026/06/24 - Jerel Navarrete, Jacob Matson](/blog/what-makes-a-great-dive-divemaxxing/)

### [What makes a great Dive? What DiveMaxxing taught us](/blog/what-makes-a-great-dive-divemaxxing)

The DiveMaxxing winners, and what 48 community Dives taught us about what separates a great data visualization from one that just looks polished.

[2026/05/28 - Jerel Navarrete](/blog/divemaxxing-data-viz-contest/)

### [Announcing DiveMaxxing: An Online Data Viz Hackathon](/blog/divemaxxing-data-viz-contest)

DiveMaxxing is an online data viz competition for MotherDuck Dives. Three categories, duckified Mac Minis on the line, and a community vote. Free to enter through June 22.

[1:01:04](/videos/ducklake-lakehouse-getting-started/)[2026-04-28](/videos/ducklake-lakehouse-getting-started/)

### [The DuckLake Lakehouse: From Getting Started to Going Fast](/videos/ducklake-lakehouse-getting-started/)

Learn how DuckLake's SQL-backed catalog cuts metadata latency to milliseconds, then tune Parquet settings, inlining, and partitioning for production.

Webinar

SQL

MotherDuck Features

[43:41](/videos/interactive-data-apps-motherduck-dives/)[2026-03-26](/videos/interactive-data-apps-motherduck-dives/)

### [Beyond Charts: Building Interactive Data Apps with MotherDuck Dives](/videos/interactive-data-apps-motherduck-dives/)

Learn to build interactive data apps with MotherDuck Dives. Go beyond static charts with live SQL, React components, and shareable URLs.

Webinar

MotherDuck Features

BI & Visualization

[38:23](/videos/motherduck-mcp-write-agent-sql/)[2026-03-17](/videos/motherduck-mcp-write-agent-sql/)

### [Agents That Build Tables, Not Just Query Them](/videos/motherduck-mcp-write-agent-sql/)

See how MotherDuck's new query_rw MCP tool lets AI agents write back to your data warehouse, creating tables, storing embeddings, and saving views.

Stream

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

[1:00:14](/videos/building-ai-chatbot-saas-mcp/)[2026-03-11](/videos/building-ai-chatbot-saas-mcp/)

### [Building an Analytics Chatbot for your SaaS app in 1 day](/videos/building-ai-chatbot-saas-mcp/)

Learn how to build a conversational AI chatbot for your SaaS product using the MotherDuck MCP server, with scoped data access and streaming responses.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

Tutorial

MotherDuck Features

[2026-01-27](/videos/preparing-data-warehouse-for-ai/)

### [Preparing Your Data Warehouse for AI: Let Your Agents Cook](/videos/preparing-data-warehouse-for-ai/)

Jacob and Jerel from MotherDuck showcase practical ways to optimize your data warehouse for AI-powered SQL generation. Through rigorous testing with the Bird benchmark, they demonstrate that text-to-SQL accuracy can jump from 30% to 74% by enriching your database with the right metadata.

AI, ML and LLMs

SQL

MotherDuck Features

Stream

Tutorial

[2025/12/22 - Carly Spoljaric, Jerel Navarrete](/blog/fall-events-recap-2025/)

### [A Quack-Packed Fall](/blog/fall-events-recap-2025)

MotherDuck spent fall on the conference circuit across Europe and the US. Here's what we presented and the pattern that emerged in nearly every conversation about analytics.

[2025-07-26](/videos/how-to-efficiently-load-data-into-ducklake-with-estuary/)

### [How to Efficiently Load Data into DuckLake with Estuary](/videos/how-to-efficiently-load-data-into-ducklake-with-estuary/)

Learn how DuckLake, MotherDuck, and Estuary enable fast, real-time data integration and analytics with modern open table formats, cloud data warehousing, and no-code streaming pipelines.

YouTube

[2025-05-21](/videos/stay-in-flow-with-motherducks-instant-sql/)

### [Stay in Flow with MotherDuck's Instant SQL](/videos/stay-in-flow-with-motherducks-instant-sql/)

​Imagine writing SQL queries that give you instant visual feedback, transforming your entire data exploration experience. That's what Instant SQL enables with MotherDuck.

YouTube

[2024/10/01 - Jerel Navarrete](/blog/guide-to-coalesce-2024/)

### [MotherDuck at Coalesce 2024: Your Ultimate Guide to Quack-tastic Fun!](/blog/guide-to-coalesce-2024)

Get ready to make a splash at Coalesce 2024! 🦆 MotherDuck is bringing the fun to Las Vegas, and we can't wait to see you there. Whether you're a seasoned Coalesce pro or a first-timer, we've got everything you need to make this year's event unforgettable.

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