Rafi Kurlansik
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Rafi is a Principal Product Specialist at Databricks where he specializes in Data Science, Machine Learning and the Developer Experience. He has also helped many customers scale their R workloads with Spark. In his spare time he enjoys gardening, cooking up a storm, and video game sessions with his three children.