Samarth Shetty is a seasoned engineering leader with more than 14 years of experience in the cloud infrastructure industry. With a specialization in developing large-scale stream processing infrastructures, Samarth has built his name as an expert in data pipelines and cloud storage. Samarth holds a Master of Science degree from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Mysore. During his career, Samarth has held various roles, including Director of Engineering at Databricks, former Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, and Senior Development Manager at Microsoft. He has also worked as a Software Engineer and Senior Software Developer at Philips and Microsoft, respectively. At LinkedIn, he led the Stream Processing (Apache Samza) and Data Pipeline (Brooklin and Databus) teams, while he also led development teams responsible for building core components for Azure Storage, Azure CDN, and Windows Filesystems at Microsoft.