Akshat Nair, Staff Solutions Architect at Starburst, is an accomplished engineering leader with 15+ years of experience in architecting and scaling data infrastructure. Before joining Starburst, Akshat led engineering teams at DoorDash responsible for their data warehouse and data lake solutions. He drove improvements in cost optimisation, query performance, and data integration at consumer Internet scale. His expertise spans big data and query processing, honed through roles at Teradata and Hadapt. Akshat began his career at Sybase and holds an ME from the Indian Institute of Science.