Nishith Agarwal manages the Data Lake team at Uber. He has over 10 years of experience with a background in distributed systems and databases, software engineering and product management. He is also the co-creator and PMC member of Apache Hudi, a data platform technology used to create reliable & scalable data lakes. He actively blogs about different challenges faced in building a world class data platform. At Uber, his key focus is in building the next generation of storage solutions and services to enable efficient, large scale data storage & processing across various verticals and powering machine learning workflows to ultimately help build amazing customer experiences.