Burak Yavuz

Burak Yavuz is a seasoned Engineering Manager at Databricks, with a career spanning from January 2015 to the present, where Burak leads the data ingestion team focused on integrating data into the Databricks Lakehouse. Prior experience includes contributions as a Software Engineer, where Burak played a vital role in developing technologies like Delta Lake and Apache Spark's Structured Streaming, and has been an Apache Spark committer since January 2017, contributing to MLlib and SparkSQL. Burak started with Databricks as a Software Engineering Intern, working on the Machine Learning Library for Apache Spark. Educational credentials include a Master's Degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi University, complemented by a research assistantship at Stanford that involved developing innovative optimization methods.