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Samarth Shetty
Director Of Engineering at Databricks
Samarth Shetty is the Director of Engineering at Databricks, a role he has held since January 2021. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and brings over 15 years of experience in building global-scale cloud infrastructure. His expertise includes leading development teams and creating large-scale stream processing infrastructure, data pipelines, and cloud storage solutions.
At Databricks, Shetty leads teams focused on Data Governance and Control Plane for SQL Analytics. Notable projects under his leadership include Unity Catalog, which provides unified governance for data lakes, and Delta Sharing, an open protocol for sharing data.12
Before joining Databricks, Shetty worked at LinkedIn for over five years, where he led the Stream Processing and Data Pipeline organization, contributing to projects like Apache Samza and Brooklin. His earlier career includes significant roles at Microsoft, where he was involved in developing core components for Azure Storage and other services.1
Shetty holds a Master’s degree from Iowa State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Mysore.1
