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After an incredible journey at Amazon, today marks my last day. It is crazy that this badge photo was taken 8 years ago when I was still an intern during my junior year at Berkeley, and now I am already a senior tech lead, as well as a husband and a father. From Amazon’s internal data warehouse to AWS Analytics, from HBase to Iceberg, from Athena Presto/Trino to EMR Spark, from SageMaker Lakehouse to S3 Tables, it’s been an amazing experience working alongside some of the most talented and passionate individuals in the industry. I’m grateful for the challenges, learning opportunities, and friendships I’ve built along the way. And, for my next chapter, I’m excited to share that I’m joining LanceDB! LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source database for AI, powered by Lance, an efficient open table format and data format optimized for random access and multimodal ML & AI workloads. With AI applications increasingly relying on text, images, video, and other data modalities, Lance makes it seamless to store, query, and analyze structured and unstructured data efficiently. By optimizing storage layouts and indexing, LanceDB delivers blazing-fast query performance for applications like vector search while remaining cost-effective at scale. LanceDB also has a strong commitment to open source — empowering developers, researchers, and enterprises to build scalable AI-driven applications without vendor lock-in. As it has been repeatedly proven, open ecosystems fuel innovation. While I will continue to work in Apache Iceberg and other related open source project communities, I can’t wait to start contributing to the vibrant LanceDB & Lance community, pushing the boundaries of AI and data infrastructure. A huge thank you to everyone who has been a part of my growth and success. While I’m looking forward to this next chapter, I’m even more excited about the opportunities ahead to collaborate, innovate, and build the future of AI and data infrastructure together. Let’s stay connected! ?? #Amazon #AWS #LanceDB #LanceFormat #ApacheIceberg #AI #VectorDatabase #MultimodalAI #OpenSource #DataInfrastructure #NewBeginnings