SPEAKER
Scott
Haines

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Staff Developer Advocate & OSS Engineer, Databricks
Scott Haines is a seasoned software engineer specializing in massive distributed data systems and streaming technologies. Over the past 18 years, he’s built and scaled data infrastructure at leading companies, including Yahoo!, Twilio, Nike, and, currently stepped into a role as a Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks.
Scott was a Databricks Beacon/MVP for five years before joining Databricks, he’s the author of books on Apache Spark and Delta Lake, and makes it his mission to help organizations successfully adopt open-source.
Scott was a Databricks Beacon/MVP for five years before joining Databricks, he’s the author of books on Apache Spark and Delta Lake, and makes it his mission to help organizations successfully adopt open-source.
Scott's sessions
Scott will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2026:
Application Development
Press Start: From Gaming to Real-Time Analytics with Databricks Apps
Data Engineering & Streaming
How to Build Agentic Pipelines with OSS Spark Declarative Pipelines
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