Zaheera Valani is a Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks for the Partner and Dev Ecosystem teams, and Site Lead for Databricks Seattle area offices. Prior to Databricks, Zaheera was at Tableau for 6 years leading the Data Management organization. She started out her career as a software engineer on Microsoft Excel. She is passionate about data, analytics, engineering and has grown teams and shipped widely adopted data and analytics products during her ~20 year career in technology.