Co-founded Databricks from UC Berkeley research group in 2013; now 20,000+ customers. Champions internal AI tool adoption across 10,000+ employees; built Unity AI Gateway for model routing and cost optimization; tracks engineering productivity metrics rigorously.
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Databricks sees 2x+ developer productivity from AI coding agents, but consumption pricing created exponential cost curves. Solution: Unity AI gateway routes tasks to optimal models (30% savings), rapidly adopts new efficient models (weekly cadence), and productizes the routing layer as asset-light SaaS.