Sanjay Ashok

Sanjay Ashok is a Solutions Architect at Databricks, where he helps digital natives build and scale data and AI solutions. With over a decade in the data and AI space - including time at AWS working with large enterprise customers before Databricks - he brings deep field experience to fast-scaling organisations building on the lakehouse. His specialism is AI/BI: business intelligence powered by compound AI, bringing self-service and conversational analytics to the lakehouse so that business users can ask questions of their data in natural language and get trusted, governed answers. He works across the full journey - from lakehouse architecture and ML to AI governance - with a focus on generative and agentic systems that actually ship and drive measurable value. A regular voice on the Databricks stage, Sanjay has presented at the Data + AI Summit and delivered keynotes at Databricks AI Days, translating complex AI capability into practical playbooks for teams. He is known for cutting th