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Gaurav Saxena

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Director of Engineering Automotive Industry

Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Observability.

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Bring the power of BigQuery to your Apache Iceberg lakehouse

2025-04-09 · Google Cloud Next '25

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with Gaurav Saxena (Automotive Industry) , Edward Byne (Spotify) , Pavan Edara (Google Cloud) , Filipe Regadas (Spotify) , Aniket Arora (Google Cloud)

AI/ML Data Streaming Iceberg Data Lakehouse

Unlock the potential of AI with high-performance, scalable lakehouses using BigQuery and Apache Iceberg. This session details how BigQuery leverages Google's infrastructure to supercharge Iceberg, delivering peak performance and resilience. Discover BigQuery's unified read/write path for rapid queries, superior storage management beyond simple compaction, and robust, high-throughput streaming pipelines. Learn how Spotify utilizes BigQuery's lakehouse architecture for a unified data source, driving analytics and AI innovation.