Prashanth Babu
Velanati Venkata

Prashanth is a Principal Product Specialist at Databricks with 15 years of experience in Big Data and 10 years prior as a Java architect. A Spark user since 2014, he joined Databricks in 2018 and works closely with both Product Management and Field Engineering. He has played a key role in shaping and driving adoption of Databricks Workflows and Serverless Workflows, enabling enterprises to simplify orchestration and scale data pipelines efficiently. Prashanth partners with customers to define Lakehouse best practices and accelerate the build, productionisation and deployment of robust data engineering solutions at scale. He is also the co-author of Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide and an active contributor to the data engineering community.