Bennie Haelen is a Senior Analytics Architect with 30+ years of experience spanning data warehousing, modern lakehouse platforms, machine learning, and generative AI, with professional work across the U.S. and Europe. His current focus is building practical, enterprise-grade GenAI capabilities by connecting governed data ecosystems to LLM-based workflows—enabling reliable, auditable question answering, analytics automation, and decision support at scale. His work emphasizes production requirements such as security, lineage, governance, and cost-aware orchestration, with a particular interest in multi-agent patterns and tool integration that bridge business intent to deterministic data execution.

Bennie coauthored Delta Lake: Up and Running (O’Reilly) and is the author of the forthcoming ML and Generative AI in the Data Lakehouse: Building and Deploying AI Applications at Scale (O’Reilly).