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Boston Databricks User Group

Community Introductions and Interests

Summary: The discussion revolves around introducing members of the Databricks and modern data community in Boston. Participants, including Pritesh Patel, DEV PANCHAL, Sajal Gangrade, Priyansh Vagadiya, Kuldeepsinh Vaghela, Tithi Raval, and Nishant Upadhyay, shared their professional backgrounds and expressed their experiences with Databricks, mostly at a beginner level. They highlighted their interests in learning more about Databricks technologies, data analytics, and practical applications, with several seeking beginner-friendly introductions and end-to-end project examples. The aim is to build a strong community for knowledge sharing and growth in data analytics.
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We're excited to bring together the Databricks and modern data community across the Boston area.

Whether you're a data engineer, data scientist, analyst, architect, developer, student, or technology leader, we'd love to get to know you.

Let's start by introducing ourselves! 👇

Tell us:

  • 👤 Your name and what you do

  • đź’» Your experience with Databricks — Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

  • 🛠️ What Databricks technologies you're currently working with or interested in

  • 🎯 One topic you'd love to see covered at an upcoming Boston meetup

Looking forward to learning from everyone and building a strong Boston data community together! 🚀

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Hi There , I am Pritesh Patel working as a Product Analyst at Plymouth Rock Assurance.

  • I am just getting started with Databricks and exploring its capabilities.

  • I am interested in Databricks, SQL, data analytics, and learning how Databricks can be used for data analytics.

  • A beginner-friendly overview of Databricks and how analysts can use it in their day-to-day work, with some practical examples.

Hi everyone! I am Dev Panchal, a Data Analytics grad student at Northeastern University. I recently completed a data internship at PG&E where I worked on Palantir Foundry, analyzing stuff and automated workflows using AI tools.

My Databricks experience is Beginner level right now but very eager to learn and grow!

One topic I would love to see covered is a beginner friendly introduction to Databricks showing how someone coming from a data analytics background can start using it practically in real world projects.

Excited to be part of this community! 🙌

Hi everyone!

I’m Sajal Gangrade, a recent graduate in Data Analytics. I currently have beginner-level experience with Databricks.

I’m particularly interested in learning about Delta Lake, and how organizations are using the Lakehouse architecture in real-world projects.

One topic I’d love to see at an upcoming meetup is an end-to-end Databricks project, from data ingestion and transformation to analytics and visualization.

Hi everyone!

I am Priyansh Vagadiyarecently completed my Energy Markets Analyst internship at Enel North America, working with the ROC team across different energy markets and automating data workflows.

I’m a Databricks beginner and would love a beginner-friendly introduction covering its key features and practical use cases for data analytics and workflow automation.

Excited to learn and grow with the community! 🙌

Hey Everyone, I am Kuldeep and I work as a Software Engineer at Deloitte. I have worked with AWS services and have experience creating pipelines using AWS/AZURE. I’ve had very limited exposure to databricks and I am looking forward to know more about it.

Hello,

I am Tithi Raval. I’m into Regulatory affairs working with Corning. We are currently using Power BI and internal DB tools to query data. We are still in the beginner stage of using Databricks. I would like to learn about Genie One on how it can help us query data from various sources by just writing a prompt in English. Thanks for this group.

Hi everyone! I’m Nishant, a Data Analytics grad student at Northeastern University. I recently completed Marketing Analyst co-op at Wayfair, where I worked on app marketing analytics, using SQL, BigQuery, APIs, and automation to analyze campaign performance and build reporting workflows.

I’m still a beginner with Databricks and looking forward to learning more about the platform and how it can be applied to real-world analytics use cases.

I’d especially love to learn how Databricks can fit into an analyst’s workflow, from data ingestion and transformation to SQL-based analysis and building dashboards or other analytics solutions. An end-to-end practical project would be really helpful.

Excited to be part of the community and learn from everyone! 🙌

Hi there, I am Naishal Thakkar. I work as Sr Analytics Engineer at Ahold Delhaize USA. I have an intermediate knowledge/experience on Databricks tools and functionalities.

  • I am looking forward to understand various use-cases of Databricks/Data Engineering in various industries.

  • I am Databricks Associate certified and I would love to understand what skill sets it takes to go level up and clear the professional certificate exam for Databricks.

  • Also what skills/projects it takes for someone to transition from Analytics Engineer/BI Engineer background to Data Engineer background.