Session

Sponsored by: Qubika | Building a Modern Data Foundation on Databricks: Lessons learned from FanDuel Migration

Overview

ExperienceIn Person
TrackLakebase
IndustryCommunications, Media & Entertainment, Consulting & Services, Financial Services
TechnologiesUnity Catalog, Databricks Apps, Lakebase
Skill LevelIntermediate

Modern data platform migrations are no longer purely technical initiatives. They are business programs that reshape the foundation for operations, compliance, real-time decision making, and future AI adoption. In this session, Qubika shares how we partnered with FanDuel to migrate core workloads from Amazon Redshift to the Databricks Lakehouse in a highly regulated, real-time environment. We cover the key engineering challenges, including rebuilding governance and metadata in Unity Catalog, validating data consistency at scale, and preserving developer velocity across large, multi-team migrations. We then show how these lessons led us to design an AI-powered Migration and Governance Agent, built natively on Databricks and powered by Lakebase as its persistent memory layer, to manage long-running workflows, reason over dependencies, and automate Databricks-ready governance artifacts. Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint to industrialize migrations and reduce risk.

Session Speakers

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Sebastian Diaz

/SVP of Data & AI
Qubika