diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpers.scala b/src/main/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpers.scala
index 495078a..44ad7e0 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpers.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpers.scala
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package com.github.mrpowers.spark.daria.sql.types
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Column
+import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.ScalaReflection
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
 
+import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
+
 object StructTypeHelpers {
 
   def flattenSchema(schema: StructType, delimiter: String = ".", prefix: String = null): Array[Column] = {
@@ -27,4 +30,19 @@ object StructTypeHelpers {
     })
   }
 
+  /**
+   * gets a StructType from a Scala type and
+   * transforms field names from camel case to snake case
+   */
+  def schemaFor[T: TypeTag]: StructType = {
+    val struct = ScalaReflection.schemaFor[T]
+      .dataType.asInstanceOf[StructType]
+
+    struct.copy(fields =
+      struct.fields.map { field =>
+        field.copy(name = com.github.mrpowers.spark.daria.utils.StringHelpers.camelCaseToSnakeCase(field.name))
+      }
+    )
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpersTest.scala b/src/test/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpersTest.scala
index 387c994..0c3b797 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpersTest.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/github/mrpowers/spark/daria/sql/types/StructTypeHelpersTest.scala
@@ -71,6 +71,20 @@ object StructTypeHelpersTest extends TestSuite {
 
     }
 
+    'schemaFor - {
+      "gets schema from a scala Type" - {
+        val actualSchema = StructTypeHelpers.schemaFor[FooBar]
+        val expectedSchema = StructType(List(
+          StructField("foo", IntegerType, false),
+          StructField("bar", StringType),
+          StructField("foo_bar", ArrayType(IntegerType, false))
+        ))
+
+        assert(actualSchema == expectedSchema)
+      }
+    }
+
   }
 
+  case class FooBar(foo: Int, bar: String, fooBar: Array[Int])
 }