Databricks
Lucian Popa has a strong background in engineering and research, with experience at companies like Databricks, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and Intel Research Berkeley. Lucian'sroles have ranged from Software Engineer to VP of Engineering, focusing on cloud platforms, datacenter networking, and software-defined networks. At Databricks, they held various leadership positions, overseeing platform development, architecture, and user management.
Lucian Popa completed their high school education at Colegiul National Mircea cel Batran from 1994 to 1998, focusing on Physics. Lucian then pursued a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest from 1998 to 2003. Following this, they obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science at the same institution from 2003 to 2004. Finally, Lucian completed their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2010.
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.