Brickster Voices: Meet Alasdair Anderson

In this Q&A, Databricks Lead Solutions Architect Alasdair Anderson describes balancing hands-on coding with coaching colleagues, and explains that after two decades in financial services he joined Databricks because tasks that took days or weeks on traditional stacks ran in seconds or minutes. He discusses how tools like Agentbricks, Lakebase and AI Apps reshaped FSI work within 12 months, and how Apache Spark, Unity Catalog and Unity Gateway support governed AI/ML workloads across banking, insurance and capital markets.