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Adi Polak

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VP of Developer Experience Treeverse

Adi Polak is an experienced software engineer and people manager focused on data, AI, and machine learning for operations and analytics. She has built algorithms and distributed data pipelines using Spark, Kafka, HDFS, and large-scale systems, and has led teams to deliver pioneering ML initiatives. An accomplished educator, she has taught thousands of students how to scale machine learning with Spark and is the author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark and High Performance Spark (2nd Edition). Earlier this year, she began exploring data streaming with Flink and ML inference, focusing on high-performance, end-to-end systems.

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O'Reilly Data Engineering Books 2 Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023 2 IN PERSON: Apache Kafka x Apache Flink 1 IN-PERSON: Apache Kafka® x Apache Flink® Meetup 1 Big Data LDN 2025 1 Big Data LDN 2025 1 Data + AI Summit 2025 1 Small Data SF 2025 1

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Data Biases and Generative AI: A Practitioner Discussion

2023-07-26 · Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023 Watch

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with Gavita Regunath , Layla Yang , Christina Taylor , Adi Polak (Treeverse)

AI/ML Databricks GenAI

Join this panel discussion that unpacks the technical challenges surrounding biases found in data, and poses potential solutions and strategies for the future including Generative AI. This session is a showcase highlighting diverse perspectives in the data and AI industry.

Talk by: Adi Polak, Gavita Regunath, Christina Taylor, and Layla Yang

Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc

Live from the Lakehouse: Ethics in AI with Adi Polak & gaining from open source with Vini Jaiswal

2023-07-14 · Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023 Watch

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with Vini Jaiswal (ByteDance) , Adi Polak (Treeverse)

AI/ML Data Lakehouse Databricks Marketing Spark

Hear from two guests. First, Adi Polak (VP of Developer Experience, Treeverse, and author of #1 new release - Scaling ML with Spark) on how AI helps us be more productive. Second guest, Vini Jaiswal (Principal Developer Advocate, ByteDance) on gaining with the open source community, overcoming scalability challenges, and taking innovation to the next stage. Hosted by Pearl Ubaru (Sr Technical Marketing Engineer, Databricks)