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Alan Jackoway

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Staff Software Engineer Databricks

Alan is the technical lead for our internal Data Platform function at Databricks. Alan has been building data platforms at the companies that make data platforms for the last 15 years, first at Cloudera and now at Databricks. At Databricks, our internal Data Platform enables all Databricks employees to use our own product to interact with data on a daily basis. He is passionate about product feedback, and believes that when more people use data, the company can make better decisions

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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Swimming at Our Own Lakehouse: How Databricks Uses Databricks

This session is repeated. Peek behind the curtain to learn how Databricks processes hundreds of petabytes of data across every region and cloud where we operate. Learn how Databricks leverages Data and AI to scale and optimize every aspect of the company. From facilities and legal to sales and marketing and of course product research and development. This session is a high-level tour inside Databricks to see how Data and AI enable us to be a better company. We will go into the architecture of things for how Databricks is used for internal use cases like business analytics and SIEM as well as customer-facing features like system tables and assistant. We will cover how data production of our data flow and how we maintain security and privacy while operating a large multi-cloud, multi-region environment.