Bio

Data Geek, Cloud Herder, Speaker, Cyclist, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and general Tech-Nerd. I've been championing Data Analytics in it's different forms for over a decade, from the early days of on-premises Microsoft BI through to the modern era of cloud-based Data Lakehouses with spark & various forms of distributed compute. As the Director of Engineering at Advancing Analytics, my passion is helping companies achieve their analytics goals using the best of data engineering know-how, coaching their data leadership and educating their teams around the latest and greatest Azure analytics technologies. Big believer in the wider data community - Regularly present on cloud analytics architectures, was the original founder of the Surrey Data Platform Group and now organise the Microsoft Data London UG. I can generally be found at data conferences worldwide, sharing my experiences and learning from as many people as possible! Specialties: - Azure Data Architecture - Advancing Data Engineering & Framework building - Azure Databricks - Azure Synapse Analytics - Data Lake Architecture & Operating Models - Orchestration & Metadata handling approaches