Databricks

Owning Databricks’ university alliances and student programs strategy for India, focusing on building a strong pipeline of data and AI talent across top institutions. My responsibilities include:

- Building and nurturing partnerships with faculty, university leadership, and student communities to integrate Databricks into teaching, projects, and research.
- Designing and executing scalable programs including workshops, hackathons, and curriculum collaborations.
- Enabling students and educators with Databricks resources, training, and community so they can gain hands-on experience with Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
- Tracking program health through engagement, adoption, and pipeline metrics. Iterating on initiatives based on feedback from campuses and internal stakeholders.