Shehab Amin
Shehab leads LakeSail while actively contributing to open source projects that push the boundaries of big data infrastructure. He grew up in the Bay Area and earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science from UC Berkeley.
Posts by Shehab Amin
Release
Sail 0.7: Stateless Compute, Durable Job State
Engineering
The Lakehouse Format Is an Engine Contract
Platform
Sessions: Secure, On-Demand Compute for Humans and Agents
Engineering
How Sail Compares to Photon and Other Spark Accelerators
Release
Sail 0.6: Arrow, End to End
Engineering
Agent Skills for Spark Workloads
Release
Sail 0.5: Resilient and Observable Distributed Execution
Engineering
Spark’s Python Problem and How Sail Solves It
Engineering
How Sail Utilizes and Extends Apache DataFusion
Engineering
Sail, the Last Piece of the Composable Data Stack
Release
Sail 0.4: Native Apache Iceberg Support
Engineering
Sail Turns One
Release
Sail 0.3: Long Live Spark
Release
Sail 0.3.2: Start the Journey from Your Lakehouse
Release
Announcing Sail 0.2.6
Engineering
Sail MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents
Engineering
Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week
Engineering
Beyond the JVM: How Rust is Redefining Big Data for the AI Era
Release
Sail 0.2.1: Enhanced UDF Support
Engineering
Why It’s Possible Now: Sail 0.2 and the Evolution of Distributed Compute Frameworks
Engineering
Sail 0.2 and the Future of Distributed Processing
Engineering
Introducing Sail Enterprise Support
Engineering
A Sail Recipe: Tackling an Out-of-Control Redshift Bill
Release
The First PySail Release
Benchmarks