I am a Cloud & Big Data Analytics architect, coming from a big data and backend IT development background. I truly believe that an open mind and a solid set of IT skills can work miracles. - 11+ years of hands-on IT industry experience - Multiple roles, contracts, companies, projects of medium to large scales - Multitude of proven skills and technologies, incl. Microsoft Azure (compute, storage, data engineering, [big data] analytics, machine learning), on-prem Big Data (Cloudera, MapR), Spark, Scala, Hadoop, Java, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Kafka, IT security & administration, Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, RFPs, RFIs Got any questions? Ask away!