Scott Haines

Scott Haines is a seasoned software engineer with over 20 years of experience. He has worn many hats during his career, across the entire software stack, from front to back. He has worked for a wide variety of companies, from startups to global corporations, and across various industries, from video and telecommunications, to news, sports, and gaming, as well as data, insights, and analytics. He has held positions at notable companies, including Hitachi Data Systems, Convo Communications, Yahoo!, Twilio, and joined Nike in early 2022. Scott has enjoyed working on distributed systems, real-time communications platforms, and enterprise-scale data platforms for over a decade and was foundational in helping to drive Apache Spark adoption for stream processing at Twilio. He is an active member of the Apache Spark community, a Databricks Beacon, and speaks regularly at conferences like the Data+AI Summit, Open Data Science Conference, and others.