Adi
Polak

Adi Polak is an experienced software engineer and people manager. For most of her professional life, she has worked with data and machine learning for operations and analytics. As a data practitioner, she developed algorithms to solve real-world problems using machine learning techniques and expertise in Apache Spark, Kafka, HDFS, and distributed large-scale systems. Adi has taught Spark to thousands of students and is the author of the successful book “Scaling Machine Learning with Spark” and "High performance Spark" 2nd edition. A year and a half ago, she embarked on a new adventure with data streaming, specifically Flink, and she can’t get enough of it.