Simon is a Data Engineer and Technical Author with 20+ years of experience in the data field. He's the author of the Data Engineering Blog (ssp.sh), curator of the Data Engineering Vault (vault.ssp.sh), and currently writes a book about Data Engineering Design Patterns (dedp.online). Simon maintains an awareness of open-source data engineering technologies and enjoys sharing his knowledge with the community.

Simon Späti

DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2025

Faraz helps organizations navigate the complexities of modern data architecture. In an era of exploding vendor options and rising data costs, he guides technical teams through platform decisions that align with their needs and optimize their investments.

His experience spans organizations of all sizes, from growing enterprises to Fortune 500 companies where he helps technical teams cut through marketing buzz to make pragmatic architectural decisions. He partners with technical leaders to evaluate modern architecture approaches that scale cost-effectively and deliver real business value.

Through architecture workshops and technical discovery sessions, he brings proven practices and lessons learned from numerous enterprise implementations. This collaborative approach helps teams avoid costly missteps and build data architectures that stand the test of time.

When he’s not helping teams navigate data architecture decisions, he finds balance and fulfillment in his roles as a husband and father, along with his passion for food, automobiles, and technology.

Faraz Hameed

Simplifying IoT Analytics with MotherDuck

World-class team of engineers and leaders with experience working on databases and cloud services at AWS, Databricks, Elastic, Facebook, Firebolt, Google BigQuery, Neo4j, SingleStore, Snowflake and more

MotherDuck team

Prompting? That’s so 2024. Welcome to Quack-to-SQL.

Vector Technologies for AI: Extending Your Existing Data Stack

Jacob joined MotherDuck after a career as a startup operator in finance and data roles. 

Jacob Matson

Andrew Witten

Using MotherDuck at MotherDuck: Loading Data from Postgres with DuckDB

DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2025

Daniel Palma

Software engineer and technical content creator with a diverse background. Most recently, I have been developing and maintaining internal tools, working mainly with backend technologies to provide REST APIs and automate company processes. In addition to technical knowledge, I also have experience in a wide variety of communication styles.

Emily Lucek

DuckDB, MotherDuck, and Estuary: A Match Made for Your Analytics Architecture

A Beginner’s Guide to Geospatial with DuckDB Spatial and MotherDuck

Adithya joins MotherDuck as an AI Software Engineer after working on his startup building developer tools to help data teams accelerate their adoption of AI/ML.

Adithya Krishnan

Effortless ETL for Unstructured Data with MotherDuck and Unstructured.io

👩🏻‍💻Building Preswald - https://github.com/StructuredLabs/preswald

Backed by Investors: Y Combinator, General Catalyst 

 Amrutha Gujjar

Faster health data analysis with MotherDuck & Preswald

As a product manager I was always wrestling with SQL or bugging the data team for analyses. There's a better way with AI.

We're reimagining how data analysis is done in the enterprise. We're on a mission to:
- Uplevel every data practitioner in the enterprise
- Bring insights to where the business actually is rather than build another dashboard cemetery
- Make AI an actual part of the data analysis workflow, not just a code-generator

Since launching Fabi.ai, we've shown data teams, product managers and founders what's possible and saved them collectively thousands of hours, allowing them to do more and grow faster.

Marc Dupuis

How to build an interactive, shareable sentiment analysis dashboard with MotherDuck & Fabi.ai

Sheila joins us from MongoDB where she led Customer Strategy. Previously, she was a marketing leader at HashiCorp, management consultant at PwC, and creative director, producer, and 'renaissance woman' working with leading fashion and luxury brands to turn creative tailwinds into commercial impact.

Sheila Sitaram

MotherDuck for Business Analytics: GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, Tiered Support, and New Plan Offerings

DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2025

MotherDuck Now Supports DuckDB 1.2: Faster, Friendlier, Better Performance

Mehdi joins us as a Data Engineering and Analytics Advocate after a career as a Data Engineer and a nighttime hobby of creating YouTube videos and other content for data professionals.

Mehdi Ouazza

Why CSV Files Won’t Die and How DuckDB Conquers Them

The Data Engineering Toolkit: Essential Tools for Your Machine

Local dev and cloud prod for faster dbt development

DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2025

What’s New: Streamlined User Management, Metadata, and UI Enhancements

We made a fake duck game: compete to win!

Aditya is Co-founder at Zenith. Previously ML Engineer at Uber and Google.

Aditya Somani

Window Functions in Motherduck: An Analytical Approach

Why web developers should care about analytical databases

Jordan joins us from SingleStore where he was Chief Product Officer. Previously he was a product leader, engineering leader and founding engineer on Google BigQuery. 

Jordan Tigani

Boaz joins us from Elastic where he was a Distinguished Engineer on the Elasticsearch team, and later the Tech Lead for their cloud platform. Previously he was the CTO of Buzzcapture, a social monitoring service.

Boaz Leskes

Separating Storage and Compute in DuckDB

LLM-driven data pipelines with prompt() in MotherDuck and dbt

Myles Scolnick

Visualizing text embeddings using MotherDuck and marimo

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2024

The Serverless Backend for Analytics: Introducing MotherDuck’s Native Integration on Vercel Marketplace

Introducing Read Scaling

Sahil is a data-focused technology practitioner who uses his interest in social impact to advance the initiatives of charitable organizations in order to better achieve their missions.

As Senior Data Engineer at DoSomething, Sahil leads all-things data and empowers the organization to benchmark their work to ensure DoSomething continues to fuel young people to change the world.

Sahil Gupta

Non-Profits <3 Small Data’s ROI

Improved Control and Ergonomics on MotherDuck

How to Extract Analytics from Bluesky, the New Open Social Network

From Data Lake to Lakehouse: Can DuckDB be the best portable data catalog?

15+ Companies Using DuckDB in Production: A Comprehensive Guide

Quacking at the Edge: DuckDB on Raspberry Pi

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: November 2024

The Data Warehouse powered by DuckDB SQL

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.

Ryan Boyd

DuckDB Tutorial For Beginners

Pranav is a co-founder at mooncake after having been a product manager at SingleStore and Microsoft.

Pranav Aurora

pg_mooncake: Columnstore Tables with DuckDB Execution in Postgres

Jelte is a Software Engineer at MotherDuck, part of the database pod.

Jelte Fennema-Nio

 pg_duckdb beta release : Even faster analytics in Postgres

Doug joins us from Coinbase, where he led the Data Team responsible for AI / machine learning / data infrastructure.  Previously he led the Semantic Scholar business unit at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the Alexa ML Platform at Amazon and founded two startups. Geekwire named him “a top player in the AI world.”

Doug Raymond

You asked, We Listened: Sharing, UI and Performance Improvements

Small Data is bigger (and hotter 🔥) than ever

Daniel Sola is a Solutions Engineer at Union.ai, helping teams efficiently create AI products with Union's managed compute and AI orchestration platform, reducing costs and accelerating time to production.

Daniel Sola

Union and MotherDuck's Orchestrated Approach to Advanced Analytics

Till joins us from Hopsworks, the ML Platform company, where he was Senior Research Engineer. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the intersection of data management and machine learning.

Till Döhmen

Introducing the prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL!

The Enterprise Case for DuckDB: 5 Key Categories and Why to Use it

Performant dbt pipelines with MotherDuck

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: October 2024

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.

Jerel Navarrete

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MotherDuck at Coalesce 2024: Your Ultimate Guide to Quack-tastic Fun!

5 Hidden gems in DuckDB 1.1

Getting started with modern GIS using DuckDB

Generating a data app with your MotherDuck data

Swimming in Google Sheets with MotherDuck

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: September 2024

Small Data SF: The Agenda is now live…with *NEW* hands-on workshops

Brett joins MotherDuck as a product manager after a career in engineering, engineering leadership, consulting and as the founder of his own startup in the data ecosystem.

Brett Griffin

Splicing Duck and Elephant DNA

Introducing the embedding() function: Semantic search made easy with SQL!

Redshift Files: The Hunt for Big Data

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: August 2024

Andrew McEwen is the Co-Founder and CTO of Secoda, the command center for your data stack that provides an AI powered data catalog, observability, and governance platform to save companies time and money.

Andrew McEwen

Secoda x MotherDuck: The newest member of the Modern Duck Stack 🦆

The Small Data Manifesto

New Collaboration Features: Org-level sharing and Auto-Join

Build a dashboard to monitor your python package usage with DuckDB & MotherDuck

Saqib Rasul is the CTO of Geobase, where he currently leads its development. He started his career as an early engineer at 360T, helping it achieve a €500 million acquisition by Deutsche Börse. Saquib holds dual major degrees in Aerospace and Software Engineering from RMIT. By night, he is a standup comic based out of Frankfurt, Germany.

Saqib Rasul

Pushing the Boundaries of Geo Data with MotherDuck and Geobase!

Stephanie is a staff software engineer at MongoDB. Previously, she worked on Google BigQuery where she was the tech lead of the BigQuery developer tools team, building the CLI, client libraries and J/ODBC drivers.

Stephanie Wang

Reflections on SIGMOD/PODS 2024: Insights and Highlights

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: July 2024

Search in DuckDB: Integrating Full Text and Embedding Methods

What Happens When You Put a Database in Your Browser?

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Announcing MotherDuck General Availability: Data Warehousing with DuckDB at Scale

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: June 2024

Congratulations to DuckDB Labs On Reaching 1.0!

Sean M. Tracey is the Head of Developer Relations at Expanso, the platform that provides global compute for your data, wherever you want it: cross-cloud, cross-region, at the edge, or on-premises. It allows you to have all the flexibility of a global cloud platform, while still keeping your data on your premises.

A seasoned technologist, Sean is a tenured writer and the author of several programming books. Previously, he has worked at AWS, IBM, and FT Labs as a software engineer, creative technologist, and developer advocate.

Sean M. Tracey

How we Saved 95% on Log Processing with Bacalhau and MotherDuck

Developing a RAG Knowledge Base with DuckDB

I'm Luciano and I started my career in industry and agribusiness in Brazil. Recently, I've been focusing on marketing and e-commerce, working as a data engineer at companies like C&A, Flywheel Digital, and Coca-Cola. This year, I took a big step by launching my own consulting and development business, which has been super exciting. I also share my knowledge in a light and humorous way online, making it a really great experience. My son is my greatest motivation.

Luciano Galvão Filho

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: April 2024

Vasilije is currently building Cognee, an open-source framework for knowledge and memory management for LLMs. Before that, he has team lead at Taxfix where he managed and built their first data tools, worked at Zalando where he deployed machine learning applications, and Omio where he supervised the creation of real-time Big Data systems.

Vasilije Markovic

Structured memory management for AI Applications and AI Agents with DuckDB

Tino joins us from Firebolt where he was VP of Product. Previously he was a product manager at Google BigQuery and a Tech Director of the Google Cloud Office of the CTO.

Tino Tereshko

Build sub-second data applications with MotherDuck’s Wasm SDK

Building Vector Search in DuckDB

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: March 2024

Zhenni Wu is a highly motivated, results-driven individual with great passion for technology, startups and entrepreneurship. She has a big heart for the humanities and believes each and every one of us is capable of making the world a better place through innovative ideas, inspiring others, and bringing enthusiasm to everything we do. Currently, Zhenni is a marketing advisor at PuppyGraph and has over a decade of experience in developer relations, product management, and marketing.

Zhenni Wu

How PuppyGraph Enables a Graph Model On MotherDuck Without a Graph Database

DuckDB & dbt | End-To-End Data Engineering Project (2/3)

Joseph joins us from Facebook where he was the tech lead on the Resource Isolation and Management team. Previously he also worked on Facebook's blob storage and the network layer for storage.

Joseph Hwang

Differential Storage: A Key Building Block For A DuckDB-Based Data Warehouse

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: February 2024

Hamilton joins us from Rill Data, where he was the head of application engineering. Prior to that, he was a data scientist and engineer at Mozilla, where he worked at the intersection of browser technology and data visualization.

Hamilton Ulmer

Introducing the Column Explorer: a bird’s-eye view of your data

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DuckDB & Python : end-to-end data engineering project [1/3]

David Neal

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Why You Should Learn SQL in 2024

This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: January 2024

AI That Quacks: Introducing DuckDB-NSQL, a LLM for DuckDB SQL

Streaming Data To MotherDuck With Estuary

Perf is not enough

Peter joins us as a Visiting Researcher from CWI where he is a professor on Large-Scale Analytical Data Management.  As part of his PhD, he designed MonetDB and continues research on database systems.  He was named as an ACM Fellow "for contributions to the design of columnar, main-memory, and vectorized database systems."

Peter Boncz

Just Released: Hybrid Query Processing Paper at CIDR 2024

Analyze JSON Data Using SQL and DuckDB

Software engineering is not only a job but also a passion for me. It brings impressive challenges such as scalability, concurrency or caching. Big data is a great field to deal with them and to strive to excel in. I also love mobile technologies and especially those related to smartphones. If you go through my profile, you'll notice some personal projects are on Android or iOS.
Finally I'm fond of innovative projects and always eager to be able work on habit breaking and world changing stuff!


Christophe Oudar

DuckDB, the great federator?

Introducing FixIt: an unreasonably effective AI error fixer for SQL

I'm a Data Engineer by day at X-Team, working for Riot Games.
 
By night, I'm a content creator working on my YouTube channel and three newsletters: Data Gigs [finding jobs in data],  AWS Graviton Weekly and of course the DuckDB ecosystem newsletter.

AWS Community Builder since 2022.

I run a Talent Collective as well.

Best way to contact me? Twitter link below.

Marcos Ortiz

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This Month in the DuckDB Ecosystem: December 2023

The Future of BI: Exploring the Impact of BI-as-Code Tools with DuckDB

Leslie joins us from Meta where she was a Director of Recruiting. She has spent the better part of the last two decades supporting the people function, previously at Amazon, Under Armour, and startups MyFitnessPal and imo.im

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