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Frank Munz

Databricks

Frank Munz works as a principal TM engineer at Databricks.
Before joining Databricks, Frank authored three computer science books and played a pivotal role in establishing technical evangelism and developer relations for Amazon Web Services across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Frank presented at top-notch conferences on every continent excluding Antarctica due to his aversion to cold temperatures. Frank has been invited to speak at events such as re:Invent, Devoxx, Kubecon, VoxxedDays, Big Things, and Java One. He holds a Ph.D. with summa cum laude in Computer Science from TU Munich and once upon a time, he worked as a data scientist in a group that received a Nobel Prize for demonstrating the link between certain cancers and viruses.

Badges 9

Talks 7

  1. Devoxx UK 2026

    Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Live Avionics Streaming from 40,000 Aircraft Overhead

    May 2026Data

  2. Devoxx Greece 2026

    Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines in Action: Lessons from Processing Live Aircraft Data at Global Scale

    April 2026Data & AI

  3. Devoxx Greece 2025

    AI supported Techniques for Data Engineers

    April 2025Data & AI

  4. Devoxx Greece 2024

    Generative AI for Data Platforms - Cutting to the Chase

    April 2024Data & AI

  5. Devoxx Greece 2023

    The Data Lakhouse for Streaming Data - A talk for everyone who ❤️ data

    May 2023Data & AI

  6. Voxxed Days Ticino 2023

    The Data Lakehouse: A tech talk for everyone who loves data

    January 2023Data & AI▶ Watch

  7. Devoxx Ukraine 2019

    What would you do with a million cores? high performance computing on aws

    November 2019Cloud, Containers & Infrastructure▶ Watch