I am passionate about Smart Data Querying and bridging SQL & ML:

• Passionate Builder / Lead contributor for end-to-end innovative projects and expeditions
• Developing Data Agents, and co-created the Editor and Assistant teams
• Fond of off-the-beaten-path adventures: climbing, kitesurfing, packrafting, chess, and judo (black belt)
• Experience:
  • Databricks, San Francisco, CA — Staff Software Engineer, Assistant Lead (October 2021 – Present)
    • Adding AI Assistance across products
      • Initial Data Science Agent & Agent Framework, now Genie Code, with contributions across surfaces
      • Initial Assistant for Code, SQL, Notebooks, and Query optimization
      • Initial in-house Copilot-style code Autocompletion
    • Modernized the SQL Editor and Notebook with leading autocomplete and Monaco editor
      • Unified the Editor across the platform
    • TypeScript / SQL / React / LLMs / Python / Data Analytics
• Recent highlights:
  • Introducing Genie Code
  • Introducing Databricks Assistant Data Science Agent
  • GA: Databricks Assistant and AI-generated comments
  • Introducing Databricks Assistant Autocomplete
  • Introducing Databricks Assistant
  • Databricks Notebooks editor upgrades
• Past:
  • Co-creator of Hue Editor, executed billions of SQL queries by 1000s of customers and evolved for 10 years
  • Yahoo Search & Hadoop
  • Google Machine Database
• Writing about Data Querying and ML