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Signup to Generate a PitchContributor is hosted by Eric Anderson. The show has published 92 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Data Processing Evolved: OpenLineage with Willy Lulciuc" (18 November 2025, 33 minutes), "Revolutionizing Computer Vision: OpenFilter with Andrew Smith" (18 June 2025, 30 minutes), and "Big Complexity Revisited: Dagster with Pete Hunt" (4 June 2025, 38 minutes).
Contributor publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 92 episodes.
Booking probability for Contributor is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Contributor requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Contributor's contact route on record: verified email.
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Eric Anderson hosts Contributor, a technology show with 92 episodes published.
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Willy Lulciuc ( @wslulciuc ) is a pioneer in data engineering and one of the creators of OpenLineage, the open-source framework for data lineage collection and analysis. It enables consistent collection of lineage...
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Andrew Smith (Github: @asmith-plainsight ) dives deep into OpenFilter, the open-source framework for building computer vision workflows. Andrew is the CTO of Plainsight which is a leader in modern computer vision...
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Pete Hunt ( @floydophone ) joins Eric Anderson ( @ericmander ) to talk about Dagster, the open-source data orchestration platform built for productivity. In 2021, Eric interviewed Dagster’s founder, Nick Schrock, about...
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Mark Fussell ( @mfussell ) is the co-creator of Dapr, the open-source runtime system designed to support cloud native and serverless computing. Dapr provides APIs that simplify the development of distributed...
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Kee Jefferys ( @JefferysKee ) is the technical co-founder of Session, the end-to-end encrypted messenger that emphasizes user confidentiality and anonymity. Session uses a blockchain-based decentralized network for...
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Clément Salaün ( @superzamp ) is the co-founder and CTO of Formance, the open-source platform which is building an agnostic infrastructure for the future of the financial Internet. Formance is divided into several...
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Gideon Mendels (Github: @gidim ) is the co-founder and CEO of Comet, the end-to-end model evaluation platform for AI developers. Among the tools in the Comet ecosystem is Opik, an open-source solution for evaluating...
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Hanson Ho ( @bidetofevil ) is an Android Architect at Embrace, the mobile-first observability solution built on OpenTelemetry. Embrace began as a proprietary platform but went open-source at the end of 2023. Hanson...
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Stephan Ewen ( @StephanEwen ) is the co-founder of Restate, the open-source workflow-as-code engine. Restate is lightweight, simple, and provides durable execution. Before Restate, Stephan co-created Apache Flink, the...
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Eyal Solomon ( @EyalSolomo44643 ) is the CEO and co-founder of Lunar, an open-source platform which bills itself as the “first reverse API gateway.” Lunar allows engineering teams to monitor, manage, and optimize API...
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Shirshanka Das ( @shirshanka ) is the CTO of Acryl Data and founder of DataHub, which bills itself as the #1 open-source metadata platform. It enables data discovery, data observability and federated governance to help...
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After his first child was born, Matt Wonlaw ( @tantaman ) imagined giving his son life advice. What kind of life did he want his kid to lead? At the time, he was working for Facebook, and he decided that his own life...
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Amplication is an open-source development platform for scalable and secure Node.js applications. It allows engineers to skip writing boilerplate code and offers the flexibility to customize and add components...
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OpenBB is an open-source investment research platform created by Didier Lopes ( @didier_lopes ). OpenBB grew out of a project called Gamestonk Terminal that Didier began working on shortly before the Gamestop short...
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OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for collecting and managing telemetry data. OpenTelemetry has been more successful than expected, becoming the second fastest growing project in the CNCF. It...
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OPAL is an open-source administration layer for Policy Engines such as Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPAL provides the necessary infrastructure to load policy and data into multiple policy engines, ensuring they have the...
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FerretDB enables users to run MongoDB applications on existing Postgres infrastructure. Peter Farkas ( @FarkasP ), co-founder and CEO of FerretDB, explains the need for an open source interface for document databases...
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Ben Johnson ( @benbjohnson ) is the creator of Litestream and LiteFS, two open-source disaster recovery solution for SQLite. Litestream is designed to provide continuous backups for SQLite databases by streaming...
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Tonic is a native gRPC implementation in Rust that allows users to easily build gRPC servers and clients without extensive async experience. Tonic is part of the Tokio stack, which is a library that provides an...
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rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database built on Raft and SQLite. Founder Philip O’Toole ( @general_order24 ) decided to combine these technologies while working at a startup years ago. The startup no...
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