Tathagata Das

Tathagata Das is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks and a key contributor to Apache Spark and Delta Lake.13 He has been with Databricks since September 2019 and is based in Connecticut, United States.1 Das is a member of the Apache Spark Project Management Committee (PMC) since 2013.13

Education and Background

Das holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (2003-2008), and a Master of Science (M.S.) from the University of California, Berkeley (2010).1 Before joining Databricks, he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley's AMPLab, where he researched data-center processing frameworks and networks.3

Contributions and Expertise

Tathagata Das has made significant contributions to:

1. Apache Spark, particularly in Structured Streaming3
2. Delta Lake, where he is a committer3
3. Co-authoring "Learning Spark: Lightning-fast Data Analytics" (2nd edition)3

His areas of expertise include big data processing frameworks, datacenter networks, and stream processing.2 Das has authored numerous influential papers on distributed systems and stream processing, with his work on Discretized Streams being highly cited.2

Professional Activities

Das is an active speaker at industry conferences, such as the Data + AI Summit, where he presents on topics related to Delta Lake and Apache Spark.3 He is also involved in the ongoing development and improvement of these technologies, contributing to sessions on Delta Lake connectors and future developments.3