
Kostas Pardalis
Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack
Kostas Pardalis is the Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack, building data infrastructure for Customer Data.
An engineer turned into entrepreneur, Kostas loves to build products and companies around data. He was previously the CEO and co-founder of Blendo, a Cloud ELT product. Blendo was acquired by RudderStack.
Kostas is also one of the hosts at the Data Stack Show. He enjoy chatting with people and learning about the great products and technologies they build.
- Data
- Entrepreneur
- Engineer
- 📍San Francisco, CA
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LET'S TALK ABOUT:
- FinTech
- Travel & Retail
- Ecommerce
- Media
- Gaming
- Data pipelines
- ELT vs. ETL
- Open source data tools
- The evolution of data platforms
- Data collection
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Before Blendo, Kostas did research in Semantic Web Technologies while freelancing as a software engineer.
He stopped worrying about the future of RDF and Owl, but his love for data, how to structure it and how to use it to represent the world, remained.

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Kostas Pardalis
Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack
- Data
- Entrepreneur
- Engineer
- 📍San Francisco, CA
Kostas Pardalis is the Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack, building data infrastructure for Customer Data.
An engineer turned into entrepreneur, Kostas loves to build products and companies around data. He was previously the CEO and co-founder of Blendo, a Cloud ELT product. Blendo was acquired by RudderStack.
Kostas is also one of the hosts at the Data Stack Show. He enjoy chatting with people and learning about the great products and technologies they build.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT:
- FinTech
- Travel & Retail
- Ecommerce
- Media
- Gaming
- Data pipelines
- ELT vs. ETL
- Open source data tools
- The evolution of data platforms
- Data collection
--
Before Blendo, Kostas did research in Semantic Web Technologies while freelancing as a software engineer.
He stopped worrying about the future of RDF and Owl, but his love for data, how to structure it and how to use it to represent the world, remained.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Kostas Pardalis
Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack
- 📍San Francisco, CA
- Data
- Entrepreneur
- Engineer
Kostas Pardalis is the Head of Developer Experience at RudderStack, building data infrastructure for Customer Data.
An engineer turned into entrepreneur, Kostas loves to build products and companies around data. He was previously the CEO and co-founder of Blendo, a Cloud ELT product. Blendo was acquired by RudderStack.
Kostas is also one of the hosts at the Data Stack Show. He enjoy chatting with people and learning about the great products and technologies they build.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT:
- FinTech
- Travel & Retail
- Ecommerce
- Media
- Gaming
- Data pipelines
- ELT vs. ETL
- Open source data tools
- The evolution of data platforms
- Data collection
--
Before Blendo, Kostas did research in Semantic Web Technologies while freelancing as a software engineer.
He stopped worrying about the future of RDF and Owl, but his love for data, how to structure it and how to use it to represent the world, remained.
As seen on
“Data pipelines are the arteries of any modern data infrastructure. Their purpose is pretty simple: they are implemented and deployed to copy or move data from “System A” to “System B.”
“In Part 1 of this series, we described a high-level architecture for building data pipelines that is commonly used in the industry today. In this post, we will go through a number of changes that have happened, both in the market and in terms of the technologies that are available.”
“Today, every company is a software company.
The change that has happened in the past 16-17 years is huge, and it cannot be described with a couple of quotes, no matter how accurate. But what’s even more fascinating today is that we also have a very good idea of what’s next.
This post is going to be about what the next big thing in tech in the ‘20s will be and which companies look like the main contenders.”
Timeline
Nov 2021 - Present
Rudderstack
Head of Developer Experience
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Rudderstack
Head of Product
Aug 2014 - Feb 2020
Blendo.co
CEO
Acquired by Rudderstack
Jan 2008 - Dec 2013
National Technical University of Athens
Senior Research Software Engineer
2003 - 2008
Freelance
Research Software Engineer
1999 - 2003
National Technical University of Athens
System Administrator