Michael Wiederhold is the engineering manager of app infrastructure team at Databricks. App infra team's mission is to empower Databricks engineers to release and maintain APIs that are reliable, secure, efficient, and uniform. Prior to working at Databricks he was at Couchbase for 8 years where he was one of the original employees. During the time there he spent worked on replication protocols, backup/restore systems, and led the team that built Couchbase's Kubernetes Operator. In his spare time he enjoys playing ice hockey and rock climbing.