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10 Databricks experts
These ten professionals have administered, owned or built on Databricks inside operating companies as platform admins, platform owners and data engineering leads. A reader can learn from them how Databricks workspaces, access and lakehouse pipelines are run day to day from the customer side rather than the vendor side.
Professionals to explore
01—10Edward Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Data & Analytics Manager · Cencora
Enterprise Data & Analytics Manager at Cencora (2022–2026); his other Cencora roles were Data Engineer Lead (2016–2022) and Database Developer III (2008–2016). The profile describes him as technical owner of 28 Databricks workspaces at Cencora and cites 4+ years managing, leading and mentoring data engineers.
Fabian Alexis Pallares Jaimes
LinkedInExperience: Lead of Data Engineering · Laika Mascotas
Former Lead of Data Engineering at Laika Mascotas (2023–2026), after joining as Data Engineer in 2022. The profile describes leading the data engineering function at LAIKA and driving the evolution of its lakehouse platform using Python, Databricks and AWS to power analytics and AI. Since June 2026 he has been Senior Data Consultant at Alenia Consulting.
Harshitha K
LinkedInExperience: Databricks Platform Admin · Johnson & Johnson
Databricks Platform Admin at Johnson & Johnson since September 2024, following Databricks Admin at American Express (2023–2024) and Databricks Platform Admin at Verra Mobility (2020–2023). In the Johnson & Johnson role the profile says the work included designing and managing 650+ Databricks workspaces across Azure and AWS using Terraform and implementing AWS PrivateLink, Azure networking and IP Access Lists.
Kavitha A
LinkedInExperience: Azure Databricks Admin · Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd.
Former Azure Databricks Admin at Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (2022–2024). Before that the profile lists Teradata DBA roles at Dell Technologies in stints between 2008 and 2021, and it cites 17.5 years in data warehousing, data lake and data lakehouse environments in roles including Teradata Database Administrator, Platform Administrator and Azure Databricks Administrator.
Mehboob Shaikh
LinkedInExperience: Databricks Lead · Kaiser Permanente
Databricks Lead at Kaiser Permanente since May 2026, after serving as Team Lead at Accenture (2021–2026) and Analyst at General Mills (2020–2021). The profile describes 5+ years building scalable cloud data solutions using Azure and Databricks and lists the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional credential.
Nitish Burma
LinkedInExperience: Staff Data Engineer · Marks and Spencer
Staff Data Engineer at Marks and Spencer since November 2025. The profile headline describes governed lakehouse platforms on Databricks and Azure with Unity Catalog, PySpark and Delta Lake, and says he builds governed lakehouse platforms with 8+ years across pharma, finance and retail. Earlier roles include Senior Data Engineer at HARMAN International (2024–2025).
Sabitha C
LinkedInExperience: Senior Databricks Administrator · Huntington National Bank
Senior Databricks Administrator at Huntington National Bank since September 2023. Before that the profile lists Senior Data Engineer at Do it Best (2021–2023), Data Engineer at State of Alabama (2019–2021) and Big Data Developer at Geico Insurance (2017–2019), a path from data engineering into Databricks platform administration.
Sravani RB
LinkedInExperience: Databricks Admin · Toyota North America
Databricks Admin at Toyota North America since April 2023. Earlier roles were Databricks Admin at MetLife (2019–2021) and Databricks Administrator at Optum India in two stints (2017–2018 and 2018–2019), so every role on the profile is a Databricks administration position across three employers.
Sumanth Suram
LinkedInExperience: Sr Databricks Administrator · CVS Health
Sr Databricks Administrator at CVS Health since March 2026. Previous roles were Sr Databricks Administrator at Frontier Airlines (2024–2026), Databricks Administrator Engineer at Navy Federal Credit Union (2023–2024) and Data Engineer at Ascension (2019–2021). The profile lists troubleshooting, capacity management and cloud technologies as areas of expertise.
Uzair Sajjad
LinkedInExperience: Data Architect Databricks Platform Owner · Matas A/S
Data Architect Databricks Platform Owner at Matas A/S since January 2024, after serving there as Senior Data Engineer (2021–2023) and Data Scientist (2019–2021). The profile says he designs data platforms meant to be used and describes starting as a Data Scientist building ML models before moving deeper into the data engineering stack.
Choose the right perspective
For questions about workspace setup, networking, access control or cost, start with the people whose titles name Databricks administration. For lakehouse design, data modeling or team structure, favor the data engineering leads and platform owners whose rows describe building the platform itself.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you split Databricks platform ownership between a central admin team and the data engineering teams that build on it?
- 02What workspace, cluster policy and access control setup did you settle on, and what would you change if you started again?
- 03How did you monitor and control Databricks compute costs as more teams and workloads came onto the platform?
About this directory
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