SPEAKER
Robert
Pack
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Staff Developer Advocate, Databricks
Robert Pack began his career within a multinational chemical company, where he designed and led transformative cloud and data initiatives. As Chief Technology Lead, he was responsible for global data and AI platform engineering.
Robert’s open-source journey began with contributions to Delta Lake and Delta-RS and later expanded into the broader Rust and Apache Arrow data ecosystems. Today, as part of Databricks, he serves as a Developer Advocate dedicated to fostering a modern, high-performance data ecosystem for all. Through his work on projects such as Delta Kernel, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Apache Iceberg, Robert remains committed to advancing the Open Lakehouse vision and facilitating the next generation of data infrastructure.
Robert’s open-source journey began with contributions to Delta Lake and Delta-RS and later expanded into the broader Rust and Apache Arrow data ecosystems. Today, as part of Databricks, he serves as a Developer Advocate dedicated to fostering a modern, high-performance data ecosystem for all. Through his work on projects such as Delta Kernel, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Apache Iceberg, Robert remains committed to advancing the Open Lakehouse vision and facilitating the next generation of data infrastructure.
Robert's sessions
Robert will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2026:
Data Engineering & Streaming
O(n*m) Architecture in Open Source. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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