Franco Patano is a Product Specialist at Databricks, where he brings over 15 years of industry experience in data engineering and analytics. He has architected, managed, and analyzed data applications both big and small, with open source and proprietary software, utilizing SQL, Python, Scala, Java, and Apache Spark. Prior to Databricks, Franco worked as a Data Architect and Analyst in the Commercial Real Estate, Banking, and Education industries for organizations large and small.