Lei Xia

Lei Xia is an accomplished Sr. Engineering Manager at Databricks, leading the Data Governance Platform team to develop Unity Catalog for managing data and AI assets across various cloud environments. With extensive experience in notable organizations, Lei Xia also serves as a PMC/Committer for the Apache Helix Project at The Apache Software Foundation. Previous roles include Senior Engineering Manager at LinkedIn, where responsibilities encompassed control plane solutions for distributed data systems and cluster management. Lei Xia’s career includes engineering positions at VMware and internships at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and Intel Labs, coupled with a robust educational background featuring a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and degrees from Nanjing University.