Gagandeep (Gagan) Singh Chawla is Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at Databricks, based in Munich, where he leads forward deployed engineering and delivery for the DACH region. He joined Databricks in 2019 as a Resident Solutions Architect and went on to build and lead delivery teams there.

Before Databricks, he was a platform architect on the Daimler big data platform at Mercedes-Benz R&D India, and earlier worked at Teradata and Infosys. He has about 18 years of experience in data and AI.