232: Building a Business Solo: Streaming Data, Synthetic Testing, and Startup Lessons with Michael Drogalis of ShadowTraffic.io

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and John welcome Michael Drogalis, Founder of shadwotraffic.io. Michael shares his journey in data, focusing on distributed systems and streaming data. He discusses his background as a software engineer, his work with open-source projects, and founding Distributed Masonry, which was acquired by Confluent. At Confluent, Michael contributed to stream processing technologies like Kafka Streams and KSQL. The conversation covers solopreneurship, synthetic data challenges, and the evolution of streaming technologies, offering valuable insights into innovation and entrepreneurship in the tech industry. Don’t miss it!