Athanasios Papathanasiou

Sr. Director, Engineering at Databricks

Athanasios Papathanasiou is an accomplished engineering leader currently serving as Sr. Director of Engineering at Databricks since April 2021, previously holding the role of Director of Engineering. Prior experience includes significant positions at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from May 2015 to April 2021, where roles included Principal Engineer and Sr. Software Engineer, and at Guavus as Principal Engineer from June 2013 to April 2015. Athanasios has also worked as a Senior Systems Engineer at Teradata Aster and Intel Corporation, the latter where responsibilities included serving as Field Data Collection & Analysis Technical Lead. An academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester, alongside a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Crete.

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Databricks

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With origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. As the world’s first and only lakehouse platform in the cloud, Databricks combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes to offer an open and unified platform for data and AI.


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