S9 Bonus: The DataOps Democratization Blueprint: Overthrowing Airflow Infrastructure Overhead and Scaling Serverless Data Orchestration with Blake Burch, Founder & CEO of Shipyard

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Dec 13, 2023 · 22m

Black Burch grew up in Fort Worth, attending college at TCU. Prior to his current venture, he wasn't actually a tech person. He wanted to be a music professor, specifically in percussion. But eventually, he moved over to the tech world. But, outside of tech, he plays board games, in the strategy realm, and named one that I hadn't heard of called Terra Mystica.

Previously at PMG, Blake and his company had built an internal tool called forklift, moving data between data warehouses. As it started to grow, he and his co-founder saw lots of opportunities to expand the offering - and make it a…