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Ricardo Portilla

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Field CTO Databricks

Ricardo has 12+ years of experience with Financial Services customers bringing use cases to production. He has designed and consulted on solutions architecture with dozens of customers from Capital Markets to Banking and Wealth Management. His previous work was at FINRA where he moved FINRA mission-critical workloads from on-prem warehouses to the cloud and established a machine learning practice for financial fraud

Bio from: Data + AI Summit 2025

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How Navy Federal's Enterprise Data Ecosystem Leverages Unity Catalog for Data + AI Governance

Navy Federal Credit Union has 200+ enterprise data sources in the enterprise data lake. These data assets are used for training 100+ machine learning models and hydrating a semantic layer for serving, at an average 4,000 business users daily across the credit union. The only option for extracting data from analytic semantic layer was to allow consuming application to access it via an already-overloaded cloud data warehouse. Visualizing data lineage for 1,000 + data pipelines and associated metadata is impossible and understanding the granular cost for running data pipelines is a challenge. Implementing Unity Catalog opened alternate path for accessing analytic semantic data from lake. It also opened the doors to remove duplicate data assets stored across multiple lakes which will save hundred thousands of dollars in data engineering efforts, compute and storage costs.

Scaling Success: How Banks are Unlocking Growth With Data and AI

Growth in banking isn’t just about keeping pace—it’s about setting the pace. This session explores how leading banks leverage Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform to uncover new revenue opportunities, deepen customer relationships, and expand market reach. Hear from industry leaders who have transformed their growth strategies by harnessing the power of advanced analytics and machine learning. Learn how personalized customer experiences, predictive insights and unified data platforms are driving innovation and helping banks scale faster than ever. Key takeaways: Proven strategies for identifying untapped growth opportunities using data-driven approaches Real-world examples of banks creating personalized customer journeys that boost retention and loyalty Tools and techniques to accelerate innovation while maintaining operational efficiency Join us in discovering how data intelligence is redefining growth in banking and thriving throughout uncertainty.