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Antoine Amend is data practitioner passionate about distributed computing and advanced analytics. Graduated with a master degree in computational astrophysics, author of “Mastering Spark for data science”, Antoine has been pushing both engineering and science disciplines side by side to extract commercial value from large datasets. Serving as director of data science at Barclays UK, Antoine led their AI practice and data and analytics transformation. With expertise in enterprise architecture and commercial experience delivering data science to production in a highly regulated environment, he joined Databricks as the Sr. Technical Director for financial services, helping our customers redefine the future of Banking and Capital Markets.