EP 7: DJ Patil - How Agentic AI Breaks Data Platforms

DJ Patil, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States and General Partner at GreatPoint Ventures, joins Roy Daniel to discuss how the rise of agentic AI is reshaping data engineering.

The conversation traces the evolution of modern data infrastructure, from LinkedIn's early innovations with Kafka and Spark to today's Lakehouse architectures.

DJ explains why observability alone is no longer enough, how context and guardrails become essential as AI systems take action, and why data platforms need a new management layer to support the next generation of intelligent, autonomous workloads.