Season 3 · Episode 8
Real-Time Data, Enabling Developers, and User Experience with DeVaris Brown
This episode features an interview with DeVaris Brown, CEO and Co-Founder of Meroxa. Meroxa was founded in 2020 and enables teams of any size and any expertise to build real-time data pipelines in minutes.
Previously, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, and Zendesk. Sam and DeVaris even crossed paths at Microsoft in the aughts.
In this episode, Sam and DeVaris discuss enabling developers, real-time data, and providing the ultimate user experience.
Episode Guest
Episode Transcript
Read the full transcript here.
Guest Quote [21:50 - 22:56]
“You have to be very self-aware as to what you're offering, and then be empathetic to what the community needs. It’s just a lot of cookie cutter stuff, but the goal of community is to build these remotive relationships at scale. And I think a lot of times the status quo of what community is gets in the way of that. And for me, that's something that's super important because I see from customers and case studies and things like that, how our software changes lives. And that's not hyperbole. We do a lot of stuff for the Department of Defense, which is real-time data there. We do stuff for cities. We do stuff for wind farms. We were doing contact tracing for COVID. All of these things that their real-time data previously would have taken forever, now a bootcamp grad can do this stuff. And so, how do we reach these folks at the level that they're at and give them what they need? This customer acquisition and marketing qualified leads, they only focus on the people that’s going to give you money. But evangelism focuses on the people that are going to give you their energy, efforts, and time. And we really need to figure out what does that mean from a scale perspective for community? I think more people need to start doing that.” – DeVaris Brown
Episode Timestamps
(05:47): What open source data means to DeVaris
(09:08): DeVaris’ inspiration for building a Heroku for data
(14:09): The open source underneath Meroxa
(20:06): What the Meroxa open source community looks like
(25:13): How will data engineering evolve over time?
(28:41): DeVaris breaks down real-time data
(33:40): Where does the name Meroxa come from?
(35:01): DeVaris’ advice for open source data folks
Links
LinkedIn - Connect with DeVaris
