Sumeet Tandure, senior manager of sales engineering at Snowflake, discussed data engineering disruptions and principles at AIM’s DES 2025 event.Transitioning from experimentation to production requires a strong data engineering foundation to achieve ROI.LLMs are simplifying value extraction from unstructured data types like PDFs, audios, and videos.Snowflake's Document AI automates extraction of specific fields from documents, enhancing data engineers' capabilities.Data interoperability, exemplified by Iceberg, enables multiple engines to communicate regardless of origin.Iceberg's ecosystem is expanding to open-source catalogues, reducing vendor lock-in and enhancing interoperability.Snowflake's Cortex Search simplifies pipelines for building search engines and chatbots, boosting developer productivity.Snowflake provides governance tools like automatic classification of Indian identifiers and attribute-based access controls.Snowflake integrates DevOps principles into data operations with Python APIs, Snowflake CLI, and CI/CD workflows.Snowflake offers end-to-end data engineering capabilities with support for various integration options, transformations, and delivery methods.