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Adi Polak

Director Developer Experience Engineering and Advocacy

Adi is an experienced software engineer and people manager. For most of her professional life, she dealt with data and machine learning for transactional and analytics workloads by building large-scale systems. As a data practitioner, she developed software to solve real-world problems with Apache Spark, Kafka, HDFS, K8s, AWS, and Azure in high-throughput, high-scale production environments for companies like Akamai and Microsoft.

Adi has taught Spark to thousands of students throughout the years and is the author of the successful book — Scaling Machine Learning with Spark.
When not thinking up new architecture, teaching new tech or pondering on a distributed systems challenge, you can find her at the local cultural scene.

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