Nick Schrock, the Founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, joined the A Geek Leader podcast to discuss his background as a Principal Engineer and Director at Facebook, where he co-created GraphQL. He founded Dagster to address data infrastructure issues, which are becoming increasingly critical with the rise of data and ML engineering. The conversation covered various topics, including Nick's background, Dagster's start, hiring a CEO, GraphQL creation, productivity in software, data pipelines, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Dagster University, and more. As the founder of Dagster Labs, Nick is passionate about making open-source projects impact legacy companies, and his company's work couldn't come at a more critical time as data-driven decision-making becomes more prevalent.