Amanda Moran

Amanda Moran is a Bay Area-based Solutions Architect for Databricks. Her passion is helping customers, users, and the community be successful. Previously, she worked for HP, Teradata, DataStax, and Apache Trafodion startup Esgyn. Amanda’s an Apache Committer and member of the PMC for Apache Trafodion. She’s worked on customer POCs, executive demos, distributed database cloud deployments, Python coding, data science workshops, has spoken at many conferences, Linux/Hadoop administration, and scripting—a little bit of everything. She has a master’s degree in computer science from Santa Clara university and a BS in biology from the University of Washington. In her spare time, she loves running, hanging out with her dog, and finding reasons to go to Disneyland.