Koji Kawamura is a seasoned technology professional currently serving as a Staff Technical Instructor at Databricks since October 2023. Prior experience includes working as an Education Engineer at Elastic from October 2019 to October 2023, where knowledge sharing played a key role. Koji also held the position of Senior Software Engineer at Hortonworks from April 2016 to October 2019, focusing on software development and engineering solutions. A former Solutions Engineer at Couchbase from January 2015 to January 2016, contributions included pre-sales activities, consulting, and conducting training sessions. Earlier experience includes serving as a System Engineer at atWare, Inc. from June 2009 to December 2014, where Koji developed systems based on Hadoop and HBase, utilizing machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machine (SVM).