Databricks
Sam Shah has a diverse work experience, starting as the Co-Creator of Apache DataFu at The Apache Software Foundation in 2011. Sam went on to work at LinkedIn as the Director of Engineering, overseeing consumer data products. Later, they co-founded SkipFlag, which was acquired by Workday, where they took on roles as CTO, GM of Applied Data, and Investor & Advisor at Independent. In 2020, they volunteered for the State of California, lending their skills to help manage the COVID-19 epidemic. Currently, they are the VP of Engineering at Databricks.
From 2005 to 2009, Sam Shah attended the University of Michigan where they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Computer Science.
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.