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

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