Vida Ha is currently AVP of Field Engineering at Databricks where she's been for the last 7 years. Early on in her career, she worked at Google on the Mobile Web Search and Speech Recognition teams where she first got her exposure to mapreduce. After that, she went on to co-found a startup and built their whole tech stack on AWS. Then she went to Square where she worked on scaling sql databases on-premise for their account reporting systems. Today,
she works at Databricks with customers of all sizes and all data needs to help them best utilize data technology in the cloud.