Joe is a Product Manager for Agentic AI at SAS. Following internships in R&D and three years as a Solutions Architect in SAS's Global Technology Practice, Joe now works to build and balance the direction of the publishing & execution technologies that underpin many of SAS Viya's AI/ML solutions. By working for teams covering a wide range of SAS offerings and integrative technologies, Joe has focused heavily on transferring deeply technical concepts into palatable enablement. Attracted to SAS by their intense focus on the ethical use of data and AI, Joe joined immediately following his graduate studies at Rutgers University, where he earned his B.S. & M.E. in Industrial Systems & Engineering. An avid sports fan and amateur musician, Joe likes to spend his free time watching his favorite teams lose, smashing the drums, and screaming into any microphone he can find.
Since its inception, DuckDB has been commanding respect in the data management sphere, carving its place as a highly performant data processing system. At SAS, the rapid advancements DuckDB has made have gone far from unnoticed; that's why, in the 2025.07 release of SAS Viya, we introduced SAS/ACCESS Interface to
Using college football recruiting and talent data as an example, let's see how DuckDB’s flexibility and SAS integration streamline complex transformations and queries.
