Prashanth is a Lead Product Specialist Solutions Architect at Databricks. He has more than a decade experience working on Big Data. Prior to that for a decade, he was a Java architect for a product. He has been using Spark since 2014 and joined Databricks in Sep 2018. He focuses on all things Data Engineering working closely with both the Product Management and the (EMEA) Field Engineering teams. Also leads EMEA Delta and Performance SME at Databricks and has been working with many enterprises advising them on Databricks Lakehouse best practices and guiding them expedite build, productionize and deploy their pipelines at scale.