Speaking
I speak about what it takes to run data platforms in production — stateful streaming, performance, cost, and DevOps for data teams. Conference organizers and community leads are welcome to get in touch.
Conference · DevOpsDays Cairo 2026
Lessons from Production for Reliable & Sustainable Data Platforms
How Git, CI/CD, and DevOps discipline turn Databricks notebooks into reliable, sustainable production data platforms — the path from developer to Git, CI/CD, Databricks, and a production data platform, with lessons learned along the way.
Appearances
Community session · Azure & Databricks Engineers UAE
An in-person session on event-driven data engineering with Kafka, Event Hubs, and Structured Streaming — stateful streaming, state management, and operational best practices.
Internal tech talk · Xebia XKE
A knowledge-exchange session on real-world streaming architecture and engineering practices.
Talk topics
Each topic can be shaped into a conference talk, a meetup session, or a hands-on workshop.
Git, CI/CD, environment promotion, and operational standards that turn Databricks projects into reliable, sustainable data platforms.
Audience · Data, platform, and DevOps engineers
RocksDB state management, restarts without data loss, transformWithStateInPandas, and monitoring state before it becomes an incident.
Audience · Engineers running streaming workloads on Databricks
An end-to-end reference for event-driven data on Azure — ingestion throughput, deduplication, serving, and change feed synchronization.
Audience · Azure data engineers and architects
A practical roadmap from cloud fundamentals to Azure and Databricks for professionals moving into data engineering roles.
Audience · Students and career switchers
Speaker kit
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Rahul Gosavi is a Databricks Champion and data engineer at Xebia Middle East in Abu Dhabi with 8+ years of experience building governed, high-performance data platforms on Azure and Databricks. He writes about Structured Streaming and production reliability on Medium and organizes the Azure & Databricks Engineers UAE community.
Rahul Gosavi is a Databricks Champion — recognized in the Databricks Partner Program as a Solutions Architect Champion — and a data engineer at Xebia IT Architects Middle East in Abu Dhabi. Over 8+ years at Accenture, Infogain, Yash Technologies, and Xebia, he has built batch and real-time data platforms on Azure and Databricks for enterprise and aviation programs.
His recent work centres on stateful Structured Streaming, RocksDB state management, metadata-driven frameworks, data quality at scale, and Databricks cost optimization. He holds 10+ Microsoft and Databricks certifications.
Rahul shares what he learns in production through technical articles on Medium, conference talks — including DevOpsDays Cairo 2026 — and hands-on sessions for the Azure & Databricks Engineers UAE community, which he organizes.
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