Andy Petrella is an entrepreneur with a background in mathematics and distributed data, focused on unleashing unexploited business potential through new technologies in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive systems. As the CEO of Kensu, he leads the company’s Data Intelligence Management (DIM) platform, which helps data-driven organizations put AI to work sustainably by combining AI observability with a data usage catalog, so teams can trust what goes into their models and monitor what comes out.

Andy is a well-known figure in the data community. He was an early evangelist of Apache Spark starting in 2011 and created the Spark Notebook in 2013, giving data scientists a tool for interactive, reproducible distributed computing. He has shared his experience as a public speaker at events including Spark Summit, Strata, and Big Data Spain, and he is an O’Reilly author whose work spans distributed data science, data lineage essentials, data governance, and machine learning model monitoring.

Today, Andy focuses on a question that sits at the heart of every serious AI initiative: how do organizations know their data and models can be trusted in production? Through Kensu, his writing, and his talks, he helps teams bridge the gap between building machine learning and running it reliably at scale.