2025-09-15 –, Bierstadt Lagerhaus Stage
Why DuckDB needs to be in your tool chest for working with structured and semi-structured data. From parquet, to JSON, to CSV files and many more, DuckDB excels at enabling you to slice and dice the data via SQL.
In this ignite talk, I'll (quickly) cover
- Why DuckDB is awesome
- CLI and dot commands
- Fun with parquet files
- Skipping excel for CSV files
- Working with json
- What about jq?
- What about file metadata?
- GUI?
Mark has been working in software for 30+ years. Mark is currently a Principal Engineer at Cisco. He works primarily on data pipelines for Generative AI and ML systems. Prior to Cisco, Mark was building GitOps tooling for Kubernetes at Weaveworks. Prior to Weaveworks, Mark was the founder of a company within CA Technologies' Accelerator program named Yipee.io that created a visual modeling tool for microservice applications. He is passionate about leadership, team dynamics, innovation, and productivity. Mark lives in Monument CO with his wife and three dogs. When he isn’t working you'll find Mark learning about new technologies or most likely outside running or biking.