CF7: Data Workloads Without Any Glue | Burak Karakan
simplyblockNovember 06, 202400:41:28

CF7: Data Workloads Without Any Glue | Burak Karakan

In this episode of Cloud Frontier, we chat with Burak Karakan, co-founder of Bruin. Burak shares his journey from working at HelloFresh to launching Bruin, a platform that unifies data ingestion, transformation, quality, and governance. He explains how they identified an opportunity in the chaos of data infrastructure, leading to Bruin's creation. Burak also discusses his experience transitioning from corporate comfort to startup challenges, fundraising lessons, and the importance of selecting the right investors. We also touch on the exciting developments in open-source data storage formats, which are enabling greater data freedom.

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📔 Chapters:
00:00 - Preview
01:07 - Guest Introduction
04:32 - From a big company to his own startup
08:24 - What does Bruin do?
12:28 - Early use cases for Bruin
17:05 - How Burak found the people who needed the
19:58 - How to make potential customers talk to you
21:27 - The first tool Bruin launched
26:30 - Burak first experience in fundraising
33:23 - Some advice when you fundraise
35:49 - The best resources Burak uses
38:18 - What is Burak looking forward to?
40:35 - Conclusion

📋 Show notes:
Guest links & episode links:
Burak's Linkedin: /burakkarakan
Burak's Twitter/X: @burakkarakann
Bruin Website: https://getbruin.com/
Apache Iceberg: https://iceberg.apache.org/
Delta Lake: https://delta.io/
Ingestr (CLI tool by Bruin): https://github.com/bruin-data/ingestr

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