Brooke is the Director of the Global Machine Learning Practice at Databricks and joined the company in 2016. She leads a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers who advise and develop large-scale, production-grade machine learning pipelines for customers. She is a co-author of Learning Spark, 2nd Edition and co-host of the Data Brew podcast. She received an M.S. in Computer Science from UCLA with a focus on distributed machine learning. She speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently and enjoys cycling.