Dipankar is currently the Director of Developer Advocacy at Cloudera, where he leads worldwide developer initiatives focused on Lakehouse Architecture & Generative AI. Prior to this, he served in engineering advocacy roles at Dremio, Onehouse & Qlik, where he contributed to open-source projects such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Arrow & XTable. For most of his career, Dipankar has worked at the intersection of Data Engineering and AI. He is also currently authoring the book "Engineering Lakehouses with Open Table Formats" and has previously contributed to O'Reilly's "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide." Dipankar has been a speaker at numerous conferences such as Databricks' Data+AI, Netflix Engineering, LinkedIn Eng, ApacheCon, Scale By the Bay, Data Day Texas, among others. Dipankar also keeps an interest in theoretical/applied research & his latest work was on “Data Lakehouses architecture”