Dipankar Mazumdar is currently the Director of Developer Advocacy at Cloudera, where he leads global developer initiatives focused on lakehouse architectures and generative AI. Previously, he held developer advocacy roles at Dremio, Onehouse, and Qlik, contributing to open source projects such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and XTable, among others. For most of his career, Dipankar has worked at the intersection of data engineering and AI. He has also contributed to O'Reilly's Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide and has spoken at numerous conferences, including Databricks Data + AI, Netflix Engineering, ApacheCon, Scale By the Bay, and Data Day Texas, among others.