Shehab Amin

Shehab Amin

Co-Founder & CEO

Shehab leads LakeSail while actively contributing to open source projects that push the boundaries of big data infrastructure. Early in his career, Shehab developed a passion for data engineering and co-founded Tradery Capital, an autonomous AI-powered financial modeling trading fund. He grew up in the Bay Area and earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Posts by Shehab Amin

Engineering

How Sail Compares to Photon and Other Spark Accelerators

4 min read May 2026
Release

Sail 0.6: Arrow, End to End

5 min read Apr 2026
Engineering

Agent Skills for Spark Workloads

2 min read Mar 2026
Release

Sail 0.5: Resilient and Observable Distributed Execution

6 min read Feb 2026
Engineering

Spark's Python Problem and How Sail Solves It

5 min read Dec 2025
Engineering

How Sail Utilizes and Extends Apache DataFusion

3 min read Nov 2025
Engineering

Sail, the Last Piece of the Composable Data Stack

6 min read Nov 2025
Release

Sail 0.4: Native Apache Iceberg Support

4 min read Oct 2025
Engineering

Sail Turns One

5 min read Sep 2025
Release

Sail 0.3: Long Live Spark

5 min read Jul 2025
Release

Sail 0.3.2: Start the Journey from Your Lakehouse

4 min read Aug 2025
Release

Announcing Sail 0.2.6

2 min read May 2025
Engineering

Sail MCP Server: Spark Analytics for LLM Agents

7 min read Mar 2025
Engineering

Writing a Rust SQL Parser in One Week

9 min read Mar 2025
Engineering

Beyond the JVM: How Rust is Redefining Big Data for the AI Era

5 min read Feb 2025
Release

Sail 0.2.1: Enhanced UDF Support

4 min read Jan 2025
Engineering

Why It's Possible Now: Sail 0.2 and the Evolution of Distributed Compute Frameworks

6 min read Dec 2024
Engineering

Sail 0.2 and the Future of Distributed Processing

5 min read Nov 2024
Engineering

Introducing Sail Enterprise Support

1 min read Sep 2024
Engineering

A Sail Recipe: Tackling an Out-of-Control Redshift Bill

3 min read Sep 2024
Release

The First PySail Release

2 min read Aug 2024
Benchmarks

Supercharge Spark: Quadruple Speed, Cut Costs by 94%

6 min read Jul 2024