Zeashan Pappa
Staff Product Manager at Databricks
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZeashan Pappa is a seasoned technology executive and staff product manager with 20+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data, governance, and analytics solutions. He currently leads GTM strategy and new product initiatives at Databricks for Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Cleanrooms and Marketplace, and has acted as a global domain principal for data governance. His background blends hands-on architecture and engineering with product leadership—spanning Big Data platforms, cloud transformation, IoT analytics, and DevOps—across clients like Microsoft, Bank of America, Pfizer, Disney and Walmart. He has founded a data-driven startup, led enterprise architecture teams, and regularly ships code in multiple languages (Python, Java, Scala, C#), bringing practitioner credibility to field-facing roles. Known for translating complex governance requirements into practical, auditable products, he also has experience preparing technical IP for patent filings. Based in Morrisville, NC, he combines deep technical breadth with go-to-market and enablement skills that help bridge product, sales, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
CSC Computer Science, CSC Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (93)
architecture10
spark10
storage10
analytics10
acid9
big-data9
presto9
delta-lake9
databricks9
hive9
azure8
stream8
trino8
prestodb8
hadoop8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zpappa/delta
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
An open-source storage framework that enables building a Lakehouse architecture with compute engines including Spark, PrestoDB, Flink, Trino, and Hive and APIs for Scala, Java, Rust, Ruby, and Python.
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
prestodbpythonflinkstorageruby
zpappa/transact.js
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 1 month
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