Velu Natarajan
Principal Data Engineer at GoodRx
Velu Natarajan is a data architecture leader with 20+ years of experience modernizing scalable, secure, high-performance data platforms. As a Data Clouds community leader and Principal Data Engineer at GoodRx, he drives AI-ready data cloud initiatives that enable interoperable data across platforms, open Lakehouse architectures, and governed access at scale. His focus includes FinOps for AI, optimizing token- and consumption-based workloads while maximizing business value. Velu helps enterprises accelerate the adoption of advanced analytics and AI through resilient, cost-aware, multi-cloud data strategies. He is also an author, technical reviewer, and conference speaker who enjoys epic films and playing soccer with his kids.
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Debezium and PostgreSQL in Action
Capturing Database Changes in Real Time
Debezium enables real-time change data capture (CDC) by streaming database changes to downstream systems, making it a key building block for event-driven architectures. However, many teams use it without fully understanding how it behaves under the hood.
In this talk, we’ll take a practical look at Debezium using PostgreSQL as an example. We’ll cover how logical replication powers CDC, how D...
Apr 21 2026