Denny Lee is Head of Startups at Databricks, where he works at the intersection of startups, data, and AI. A longtime contributor to Apache Spark™ and MLflow, he also maintains Unity Catalog and Delta Lake and contributes to Omnigent, Databricks’ open-source AI meta-harness. His experience spans distributed systems, AI, and data science. Previously, Denny worked on Azure Cosmos DB, HDInsight, and SQL Server at Microsoft, and led data science engineering at SAP Concur. He holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics from OHSU.