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# Kaustav Mitra

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Kaustav Mitra is the co-founder of Paradime, the AI-powered dbt platform for analytics teams. His career has spanned aerospace engineering, venture capital, and building data products.

## 1 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[0:36:24](/videos/take-flight-with-dbt-and-duckdb-dropping-dev-warehouse-costs-to-zero/)[2024-04-05](/videos/take-flight-with-dbt-and-duckdb-dropping-dev-warehouse-costs-to-zero/)

### [Take Flight with dbt and DuckDB, Dropping Dev Warehouse Costs to zero](/videos/take-flight-with-dbt-and-duckdb-dropping-dev-warehouse-costs-to-zero/)

This discussion between the co-founders of Paradime and MotherDuck talks about using dbt and DuckDB to drop your warehouse development costs to zero, while eliminating sql translation between your dev and prod environments.

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