Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering, Databricks
Prior to joining Databricks, Arsalan was an associate principal at McKinsey and Company, where he advised enterprises, vendors, and the public sector on a broad spectrum of strategic topics, including next-generation IT, cloud computing, and big initiatives, as well as general IT and corporate strategy. Arsalan received a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in the area of networking and distributed systems and a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Virginia.