Jesús Camacho Rodríguez is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading a team focused on query optimization and processing for Fabric Data Warehouse. Previously, he led a team in the Gray Systems Lab (GSL), driving innovation in data systems performance, interoperability, and benchmarking across Azure Data's product portfolio. Before Microsoft, he worked at Cloudera on query optimization for SQL data warehouse engines. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he has made significant contributions to open-source projects like Apache Calcite and Apache Hive, and, more recently, has focused on projects in the table formats space, including LST-Bench and Apache XTable (incubating). He holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sud and Inria, France.
