Dipankar is a Staff Developer Advocate whose primary focus is helping engineering teams build & scale robust data platforms using open-source solutions such as Apache Hudi & OneTable. Prior to this, he worked on projects such as Apache Iceberg & Apache Arrow at Dremio to assist engineers in building data platforms. Before that he led the R&D Advocacy team at Qlik where he focused on key developer strategies & educated the worldwide developer community in the areas of Machine Learning/Visualization. Dipankar also keeps an interest in theoretical/applied research & his latest work was on “Data Lakehouses architecture”