# Hamzah Chaudhary from Lightdash: bringing developer tools to Business Intelligence Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-devtools/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-devtools/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence.md Podcast: [Scaling DevTools](https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-devtools) Published: 2024-08-08T19:33:59+00:00 Episode link: https://podcast.scalingdevtools.com/episodes/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/bedbf39a/7646048c.mp3 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-devtools/episodes/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence Duration seconds: 1925 ## Resource Hamzah Chaudhary is the cofounder of Lightdash, an open source, self-serve BI tool. In this episode, Hamzah shares: Their initial plan to build a consultancy and how it morphed into a product to solve their customer's needs How open source works as a strategy Bringing software engineering tools to the BI domain How they reach their users How they partner with bigger organizations Links: Lightdash https://www.lightdash.com/ Lightdash GitHub https://github.com/lightdash/lightdash Hamzah's Twitter https://x.com/hamzahc1 ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scaling-devtools/episodes/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/scaling-devtools/hamzah-chaudhary-from-lightdash-bringing-developer-tools-to-business-intelligence.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.