A Spark enthusiast and also a certified Spark developer, Cong received his bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in China, and his master's degree in Information and Electronic Engineering from Waseda University in Japan. Cong started programming when he was only 11 years old and has over a decade of industry experience with big data applications, cloud computing, and mobile applications. Cong works for Databricks, as the head of DevOps on the Education team.