Speaker: Michael Armbrust
Initial Author of Apache Spark SQL & Leads Streaming Team @Databricks
Michael Armbrust is the initial author of Apache Spark SQL and now leads the Structured Streaming team 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.