Chandan K.

I build Databricks and AWS data platforms, then train the engineers who run them. Recent work: I built a GPU cloud platform from zero to 4,000+ accelerators, and I wrote db-agent, an open-source text-to-SQL agent for Databricks with SQL safety guardrails (AAAI-25 workshop). WHAT I DO ▪ Databricks setup and cleanup: Unity Catalog, workspace governance, cost control ▪ Text-to-SQL and AI agents on Databricks, from Genie evaluation to custom agents with guardrails ▪ AWS data platforms: data lakes, Redshift, OpenSearch, federated queries ▪ Hands-on training labs built with Terraform, one isolated environment per student ▪ Corporate training for data and platform engineering teams PROOF ▪ 20+ years across software development, DevOps, big data and AI infrastructure ▪ Trained engineering teams from Disney, Apple, IBM, Ericsson, Capital One, Cognizant, Allstate and Hudson's Bay ▪ 20,000+ learners across Udemy, YouTube and live bootcamps ▪ Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Databricks Platform Architect ▪ Founder of beCloudReady, a Databricks partner firm, and organizer of TorontoAI (10,000+ members)