Champion
Frank Munz
Databricks
Frank Munz solves large-scale data and AI challenges at Databricks. He authored three computer science books, established technical evangelism for Amazon Web Services in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and once worked as a data scientist with a group that won a Nobel Prize.
Frank has presented at top-notch conferences on every continent (except Antarctica, due to its inhospitable climate). His speaking engagements include re:Invent, Devoxx, KubeCon, and JavaOne. He is also a 3x published author.
He is renowned for his world-class demos, which often showcase innovative and interactive applications of technology.
He holds a Ph.D. with summa cum laude in Computer Science from TU Munich, where he worked on supercomputing and brain research.
Frank has presented at top-notch conferences on every continent (except Antarctica, due to its inhospitable climate). His speaking engagements include re:Invent, Devoxx, KubeCon, and JavaOne. He is also a 3x published author.
He is renowned for his world-class demos, which often showcase innovative and interactive applications of technology.
He holds a Ph.D. with summa cum laude in Computer Science from TU Munich, where he worked on supercomputing and brain research.
Badges 8
Talks 6
- Devoxx UK 2026
Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Live Avionics Streaming from 40,000 Aircraft Overhead
- Devoxx Greece 2026
Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Lessons from Processing Live Aircraft Data at Global Scale
- Devoxx Greece 2025
AI supported Techniques for Data Engineers
- Devoxx Greece 2023
The Data Lakhouse for Streaming Data - A talk for everyone who ❤️ data
- Voxxed Days Ticino 2023
The Data Lakehouse: A tech talk for everyone who loves data
- Devoxx Ukraine 2019
What would you do with a million cores? high performance computing on aws