Gleb Mezhanskiy on Rewriting the Migration Playbook with AI

Data migrations have long been the costly, painful bottleneck of modernization, dragging on for years and carrying multi-million-dollar price tags. But AI is already flipping that script.

Gleb Mezhanskiy, founder & CEO of Datafold, who has been deep in the trenches of AI-driven migrations, joins us on the Data T podcast to unpack how AI automation is finally making it realistic to move off entrenched legacy ETL tools. Drawing on his years as a hands-on data engineer and PM (including leading a massive migration initiative at Lyft), Gleb explains where migrations go off the rails: millions of lines of legacy code and lack of automation lead to massive human time sunk into reconciliation and QA. He shares how Datafold attacks the problem end-to-end, using agents and data diffing to translate and validate at scale, so teams can “lift and s ...