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title: "Ryan Boyd - MotherDuck Blog"
description: "Ryan started his career as a software engineer, but since has led DevRel teams for 15+ years at Google, Databricks and Neo4j, where he developed and executed numerous marketing and DevRel programs."
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# Ryan Boyd

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Co-Founder & VP, Marketing + DevRel

Ryan started his career as a software engineer, but since has led DevRel teams for 15+ years at Google, Databricks and Neo4j, where he developed and executed numerous marketing and DevRel programs.

## 28 BLOG POSTS AND VIDEOS

[2026/07/20 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/announcing-data-outpost-conference/)

### [Announcing the Data Outpost Conference](/blog/announcing-data-outpost-conference)

Data Outpost is a new conference for data and AI builders, coming to San Francisco November 4-5, 2026. The next evolution of Small Data SF: two days of workshops, talks, and real time with the people building the data layer AI depends on.

[1:02:00](/videos/ai-for-sales-marketing-teams/)[2026-05-07](/videos/ai-for-sales-marketing-teams/)

### [AI Data Analysis for Sales & Marketing Teams: Real Demos, No SQL Required](/videos/ai-for-sales-marketing-teams/)

Watch how an AE and a marketer use AI to analyze their own business data without writing SQL or waiting on a data team.

Webinar

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

Tutorial

[2026/03/25 - Ryan Boyd, Mehdi Ouazza](/blog/dive-gallery-share-interactive-data-apps/)

### [The Dive Gallery Is Live: Share Your Interactive Data Apps With the World](/blog/dive-gallery-share-interactive-data-apps)

Share interactive, AI-built data apps with anyone through a unique link — queries run live on MotherDuck compute.

[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

[59:39](/video/reliable-ai-agents-for-business-analytics-llms-warehouse/)[2026-01-16](/video/reliable-ai-agents-for-business-analytics-llms-warehouse/)

### [Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics](//video/reliable-ai-agents-for-business-analytics-llms-warehouse)

MotherDuck cofounder Ryan Boyd demonstrates how to close the LLM accuracy gap for business analytics using MotherDuck's MCP server, semantic modeling, and hyper-tenancy architecture for AI agents.

AI, ML and LLMs

[2025/12/19 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/stop-paying-the-complexity-tax/)

### [Stop Paying the Complexity Tax](/blog/stop-paying-the-complexity-tax)

My personal reflections from watching Jordan Tigani’s keynote "The Unbearable Bigness of Small Data" at Small Data SF. Most data warehouses are overbuilt for scale you'll never need. Learn how to stop paying the complexity tax.

[2025-11-19](/videos/ryan-boyd-llms-meet-data-warehouses/)

### [LLMs Meet Data Warehouses: Reliable AI Agents for Business Analytics](/videos/ryan-boyd-llms-meet-data-warehouses/)

LLMs excel at natural language understanding but struggle with factual accuracy when aggregating business data. Ryan Boyd explores the architectural patterns needed to make LLMs work effectively alongside analytics databases.

AI, ML and LLMs

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Talk

Python

BI & Visualization

[60:00](/videos/can-duckdb-replace-your-data-stack/)[2025-10-23](/videos/can-duckdb-replace-your-data-stack/)

### [Can DuckDB replace your data stack?](/videos/can-duckdb-replace-your-data-stack/)

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd joins the Super Data Brothers show to talk about all things DuckDB, MotherDuck, AI agents/LLMs, hypertenancy and more.

YouTube

BI & Visualization

AI, ML and LLMs

Interview

[2025-09-18](/videos/ryan-boyd-scaling-data-lakes/)

### [Ducks on a Lake: Scaling Data Lakes to Warehouse Performance](/videos/ryan-boyd-scaling-data-lakes/)

Explore DuckLake, a new open table format from DuckDB's creators, designed to bring warehouse-grade performance and metadata control to data lakes.

Talk

MotherDuck Features

SQL

Data Pipelines

Ecosystem

Ingestion

[2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/announcing-mega-giga-instance-sizes-huge-scale/)

### [Introducing Mega and Giga Ducklings: Scaling Up, Way Up](/blog/announcing-mega-giga-instance-sizes-huge-scale)

New MotherDuck instance sizes allow data warehousing users more flexibility for complex queries and transformations. Need more compute to scale up? Megas and Gigas will help!

[2025/07/17 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/announcing-small-data-sf-2025/)

### [Small Data SF Returns November 4-5, 2025: First Speakers Announced](/blog/announcing-small-data-sf-2025)

Conference with two days of practical innovation on data and AI: workshops and talks from industry leaders, including Benn Stancil, Joe Reis, Adi Polak, George Fraser, Jordan Tigani, Holden Karau, Ravin Kumar, Sam Alexander and more!

[2025/07/01 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/announcing-ducklake-support-motherduck-preview/)

### [MotherDuck Managed DuckLakes Now in Preview: Scale to Petabytes](/blog/announcing-ducklake-support-motherduck-preview)

Preview support of MotherDuck includes both fully-managed DuckLake support and ability to bring your own bucket. Combined with MotherDuck's storage, you get both high-speed access to recent data and support for massive scale historical data.

[2025/05/17 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/taming-wild-csvs-with-duckdb-data-engineering/)

### [Taming Wild CSVs: Advanced DuckDB Techniques for Data Engineers](/blog/taming-wild-csvs-with-duckdb-data-engineering)

How to ingest and query CSV files in DuckDB using auto-detection, sniffing, manual configuration and more.

[2025/04/16 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/scaling-duckdb-with-ducklings/)

### [How MotherDuck Scales DuckDB in the Cloud vertically and horizontally](/blog/scaling-duckdb-with-ducklings)

aka What the duck is a Duckling?

[2024/10/31 - Mehdi Ouazza, Ryan Boyd](/blog/duckdb-tutorial-for-beginners/)

### [DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners](/blog/duckdb-tutorial-for-beginners)

Learn DuckDB from scratch: install in 2 minutes, set up VSCode, and build your first SQL analytics project. No database experience required.

[2024/07/16 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/new-collaboration-sharing-motherduck-data-warehouse-organization-auto-join/)

### [New Collaboration Features: Org-level sharing and Auto-Join](/blog/new-collaboration-sharing-motherduck-data-warehouse-organization-auto-join)

Bring the Flock Together!

[0:41:41](/videos/getting-started-with-motherduck-webinar/)[2024-06-19](/videos/getting-started-with-motherduck-webinar/)

### [Getting Started with MotherDuck Webinar](/videos/getting-started-with-motherduck-webinar/)

MotherDuck co-founder Ryan Boyd and Produck Expert Nathaniel Thompson provide an overview on MotherDuck, featuring DuckDB analyst ergonomics, Column Explorer, Fixit, Tableau visualization, Python data analysis, Wasm and more.

Webinar

MotherDuck Features

[2024/06/08 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-june-2024/)

### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-june-2024)

DuckDB news: v1.0.0 Snow Duck is production-ready. Query 150,000+ Hugging Face datasets directly. Crunchy Bridge adds DuckDB analytics to PostgreSQL. RAG implementations.

[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.

YouTube

dbt

Ecosystem

[43:20](/videos/cube-motherduck-data-app-monetization-success/)[2024-03-20](/videos/cube-motherduck-data-app-monetization-success/)

### [Cube + MotherDuck: Data App Monetization Success](/videos/cube-motherduck-data-app-monetization-success/)

Cube and MotherDuck talk about the MDCuRe stack for building data apps: MotherDuck, Cube, React.

Ecosystem

Webinar

[2024/03/01 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-february-2024/)

### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-february-2024)

DuckDB news: v0.10.0 adds backwards-compatible storage and faster CSV parsing. PyAirbyte uses DuckDB as default cache. DuckDB-NSQL-7B LLM generates SQL locally.

[2024/01/30 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-january-2024/)

### [This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024](/blog/duckdb-ecosystem-newsletter-january-2024)

DuckDB news: Query Google Sheets with one line of SQL. Join across PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MySQL databases. ERPL extension connects SAP data. Harlequin terminal IDE launches.

[2023/11/28 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/announcing-duckdb-snippet-sets-with-motherduck-sharing-databases/)

### [Announcing: DuckDB code snippet sets with MotherDuck Sharing](/blog/announcing-duckdb-snippet-sets-with-motherduck-sharing-databases)

The DuckDB Snippets site has been upgrade to include sharing sets of code snippets in SQL and Python plus also sharing data with MotherDuck share URLs.

[2023/09/20 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/motherduck-open-for-all-with-series-b/)

### [Duck and Roll: MotherDuck is Open for All With $100M in the Nest](/blog/motherduck-open-for-all-with-series-b)

MotherDuck Now Open for All and closes Series B

[2023/01/31 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/python-faker-duckdb-exploration/)

### [Python Faker for DuckDB Fake Data Generation](/blog/python-faker-duckdb-exploration)

Using the Python Faker library to generate data for exploring DuckDB

[2023/01/24 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/analyze-sqlite-databases-duckdb/)

### [How to analyze SQLite databases in DuckDB](/blog/analyze-sqlite-databases-duckdb)

DuckDB is often referred to as the SQLite for analytics. This blog post talks about how to query SQLite transactional databases from within the DuckDB analytics database.

[2023/01/02 - Ryan Boyd](/blog/in-the-news-podcasts-conferences/)

### [How We're Making Analytics Ducking Awesome](/blog/in-the-news-podcasts-conferences)

MotherDuck on Podcasts, in the News and at conferences.

[2022/11/11 - Tino Tereshko, Ryan Boyd](/blog/six-reasons-duckdb-slaps/)

### [Why Use DuckDB for Analytics?](/blog/six-reasons-duckdb-slaps)

Fast aggregations, excellent SQL support, runs anywhere, provides simplified data access: cloud and local, works with your tools and frameworks.

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