Giacinto Palmieri is a freelance technical trainer and consultant who has been working in the IT secotr for for more than 25 years, He has a double background as a developer and a data engineer and focuses nowadays on Azure development and data services, but also on Power BI. He works for a wide range of training companies and for their clients in different business sectors and geographical areas.He prides himelf in always trying to go to the bottom of things, exploring not only the what and the how but also the why (his educational background is in Philosophy), which then allows him to convey this deep understanding to his course participants and readers Surendra Mettapalli is leading expert in Azure technologies with proven track record of designing, implementing innovative cloud solutions. As a Lead Data Engineer/Architect, he specializes in pivotal services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and Power BI. He has a deep understanding of Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, AI-driven applications, and has successfully collaborated with the diverse clients across various sectors including technology, finance, retail and government. His expertise has been instrumental in delivering some of the largest and most impactful data projects, enabling organizations to utilize Azure's full potential and enhance their business operations. Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.

Giacinto Palmieri is a freelance technical trainer and consultant who has been working in the IT secotr for for more than 25 years, He has a double background as a developer and a data engineer and focuses nowadays on Azure development and data services, but also on Power BI. He works for a wide range of training companies and for their clients in different business sectors and geographical areas.He prides himelf in always trying to go to the bottom of things, exploring not only the what and the how but also the why (his educational background is in Philosophy), which then allows him to convey this deep understanding to his course participants and readers Surendra Mettapalli is leading expert in Azure technologies with proven track record of designing, implementing innovative cloud solutions. As a Lead Data Engineer/Architect, he specializes in pivotal services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and Power BI. He has a deep understanding of Cloud Architecture, Data Engineering, AI-driven applications, and has successfully collaborated with the diverse clients across various sectors including technology, finance, retail and government. His expertise has been instrumental in delivering some of the largest and most impactful data projects, enabling organizations to utilize Azure's full potential and enhance their business operations. Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.