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A Merck platform leader explains what it actually takes to scale Foundry across a global enterprise.
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In this episode
- How DevTools evolved to let engineers develop Foundry transforms locally
- Why lightweight transforms matter and how they reached the broader platform
- What open data formats and the Multimodal Data Plane mean for interoperability
- How natural language interfaces are changing the way business users work in Foundry
About this episode
CodeStrap's "Code and Connor" Episode 18 features our friend Nicolas Renkamp. Nicolas Renkamp is the Global Head of Platform Product Portfolio at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. One of the most important voices in the Palantir ecosystem, he was deeply involved in the development of Foundry DevTools, allowing us to interact with the Foundry APIs and develop transforms locally, and in 2025 he worked with Palantir to bring lightweight transforms to the next level and to everyone in platform. He joined the company in 2019 and began working within the Palantir platform. He is also deeply involved with Merck’s deployment of AWS, Snowflake and Fivetran. On this episode we discuss the scaling Foundry and managing the complexity, the evolution of DevTools and enhancing DexEx in Foundry, Foundry’s branching and integration of lightweight transforms, open data formats and Palantir’s Multimodal Data Plane, interoperability and identity federation challenges, the importance of platform automation, AI and automation in Foundry and impact on business users, and unlocking value through Natural Language Interfaces Nicolas Renkamp:
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- Palantir Community: https://community.palantir.com/u/nico...
- Foundry-Dev-Tools: https://github.com/nicornk
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- Dorian: / dorian-smiley-97a72a14
- Connor: / connordeeks
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