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The people behind brickster.ai

brickster.ai is built by data engineers who spend their days in Databricks, Spark, and modern data platforms, and who wanted a focused home for the Databricks community.

Maxim Konev

Lead Data & AI Engineer

Experienced Lead Data & AI Engineer with 15+ years delivering advanced data and analytics solutions across government, finance, and enterprise sectors in Australia, UAE, and Europe. Proven expertise in Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and modern data platforms. Skilled in designing scalable data architectures, enabling self-service BI, and leading platform migration initiatives. MSc in Computer Science with multiple Microsoft and Databricks certifications.

Skills

AzureDatabricksData ArchitectureSelf-service BIPlatform Migration

Certifications

Databricks Certified Generative AI Engineer AssociateDatabricks Certified Data Engineer ProfessionalDatabricks Certified Data Engineer AssociateAzure Databricks Platform ArchitectMicrosoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer AssociatePartner Training — Financial Services Gen AI & LLM Specialization

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Mayank Malhotra

Data Engineering Specialist

Data Engineering Specialist with 10+ years across retail, banking, and finance: building, optimizing, and monitoring large-scale data pipelines, plus data migration and modelling.

Skills

PySparkDatabricksPythonSQLMongoDBApache AirflowOpenTelemetryDynatrace

Cloud

AWS (Redshift, S3, MWAA)Azure (ADLS, ADB, ADF, Synapse)

Certifications

Databricks Data Engineering ProfessionalDatabricks DE AssociateSpark Developer AssociateAzure Databricks Platform ArchitectDatabricks GenAI FundamentalsAWS CLF-01MIT Data Architect Associate

Achievements

6× Databricks CertifiedPublished a Databricks book3× Star Award winner

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