Denny Lee is a long-time Apache Spark™ and MLflow contributor, Delta Lake maintainer, and a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate at Databricks. A hands-on distributed systems and data sciences engineer with extensive experience developing internet-scale data platforms and predictive analytics systems. He has previously built enterprise DW/BI and big data systems at Microsoft, including Azure Cosmos DB, Project Isotope (HDInsight), and SQL Server. He was also the Senior Director of Data Sciences Engineering at SAP Concur. He also has a Masters of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Sciences University and has implemented powerful data solutions for enterprise Healthcare customers. His current technical focuses include Distributed Systems, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Genomics.

Scott Haines is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience. He has worn many hats during his career, across the entire software stack, from front to back. He has worked for a wide variety of companies, from startups to global corporations, and across various industries, from video and telecommunications, to news, sports, and gaming, as well as data, insights, and analytics. He has held positions at notable companies, including Hitachi Data Systems, Convo Communications, Yahoo!, Twilio, and joined Nike in early 2022. Scott has enjoyed working on distributed systems, real-time communications platforms, and enterprise-scale data platforms for over a decade and was foundational in helping to drive Apache Spark adoption for stream processing at Twilio. He is an active member of the Apache Spark community, a Databricks Beacon, and speaks regularly at conferences like the Data+AI Summit, Open Data Science Conference, and others.

Tristen Wentling is a Solutions Architect at Databricks where he works with customers in the retail industry. Formerly a data scientist, he also has authored several blog posts covering topics like best practices for production stream applications and building generative AI applications for e-commerce. Outside of technical work, Tristen spends a great deal of free time reading or heading to the beach. Tristen holds an M.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and lives in Clearwater, FL.