Adi Polak

Adi is an open-source technologist who believes in communities and is passionate about building a better world through open collaboration. As Vice President of Developer Experience at Treeverse, Adi helps build lakeFS, git-like interface for the data lakehouse. In her work, she brings her vast industry research and engineering experience to bear in educating and helping teams design, architect, and build cost-effective data systems and machine learning pipelines that emphasize scalability, expertise, and business goals. Adi is a frequent worldwide presenter and the author of O'Reilly's upcoming book, "Machine Learning With Apache Spark."  Adi is also a proud Beacon for Databricks! Previously, she was a senior manager for Azure at Microsoft, where she focused on building advanced analytics systems and modern architectures.