Matthew Thomson

Matt Thomson has been at Databricks since April 2018 and joined as one of the first Resident Solutions Architects in EMEA and the first Data Scientist. Matt is now Sr. Director for EMEA Product Specialists in Field-Engineering, his team aligns with Databricks Product and Engineering teams to help develop best-practices for deploying the Databricks Lakehouse Platform at scale with our customers. Matt also has a focus on Machine Learning, last year publishing the Big Book of MLOps providing the Databricks reference architecture and point of view on MLOps in general. Previously Matt held Data Science roles both in industry and consulting, in particular as part of his consulting career Matt was a data science leader in developing the big data analytics and machine learning Centre of Excellence for one of the largest UK Government Departments. Matt holds a PhD in Astrophysics from his research on the evolution of distant galaxies.