SPEAKER

Michael
Armbrust

Michael Armbrust
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Databricks

Michael Armbrust is a committer and PMC member of Apache Spark and the original creator of Spark SQL, Structured Streaming and Delta Lake. He currently tech-leads the Lakeflow organization at Databricks. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013, and was advised by Michael Franklin, David Patterson, and Armando Fox. His thesis focused on building systems that allow developers to rapidly build scalable interactive applications and specifically defined the notion of scale independence. His interests broadly include distributed systems, large-scale structured storage and query optimization.

Michael’s sessions

Michael will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2025: