Lisa N. Cao — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Staff Developer Relations @ Databricks, overseeing open source involvement for projects including MLflow, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Unity Catalog OSS
Founder and 3x chair of the Vancouver Datajam
Leads the Continuous Delivery Foundation's (CDF) DataOps Initiative
Terry Fox Gold Medal award recipient (2021)
Linux Foundation LiFT recipient for Women in Open Source (2021)

Biography

Lisa N. Cao is an engineering, product, and advocacy expert focused on open source data infrastructure and DataOps. As Staff Developer Relations at Databricks, she oversees open source involvement and developer relations for projects such as MLflow, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and Unity Catalog OSS.

Her career includes a role as Product Manager for AI/ML Product, Partnerships, & Developer Relations at Datastrato.