Freddie Santos
Microsoft - Senior Product Manager - Fabric Warehouse Team
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Freddie Santos is a seasoned IT and Data Platform professional with over 23 years of experience.
He has a strong background in Data Analytics, Big Data, and high-performance transactional databases, collaborating with diverse stakeholders to implement, support, and optimize customer workloads.
Freddie has extensive expertise in technologies such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, and more.
Currently, he is a Product Manager on the Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse team, where he drives innovation in data management, analytics, and database security, ensuring robust protection and compliance for enterprise data solutions.
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Securing your Data in Fabric: Best practices for Data warehouse security in Microsoft Fabric
In today’s data-driven landscape, securing your Fabric Data warehouse is paramount to safeguarding critical business information and maintaining customer trust. This session explores best practices for implementing robust security within Microsoft Fabric’s Warehouse. This session will offer a deep dive on securing your Data warehouse and practical strategies for protecting your data assets and ensuring end-to-end data integrity. Attendees will gain insights into Fabric's built-in workspace roles, new item permissions and effective ways to easily share your Warehouse, understand the SQL Security model and gain a deep understanding of how to achieve fine-grained access control within Fabric Warehouse using Row level security, Column level security, Dynamic data masking and more. Furthermore, we will also focus on how to ensure robust auditing and compliance by deep-diving into features that we provide within the control plane and data plane auditing in Fabric Warehouse. But that's not all! Stay ahead of the curve as we give you a sneak peek into the exciting innovations on the horizon, ensuring you are well-prepared to leverage the latest advancements in data security and infrastructure. This Fabric Warehouse Security session promises to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of control plane and data plane security, and a glimpse into our future roadmap.
Hardening Fabric Warehouse Security
Learn how to secure Fabric Data Warehouse from the ground up. This session covers end-to-end practices—from secure connectivity and authentication to auditing, monitoring, and governance—highlighting new features that strengthen compliance, visibility, and trust at scale.
End to End Security for Fabric Warehouse
Securing data in Fabric Warehouse requires more than role assignments and policies—it demands a holistic view across every layer of the platform. In this session, we will walk through the full spectrum of security boundaries that can impact your Warehouse, from infrastructure protections and network controls to authentication, authorization, and advanced data protection capabilities.
You’ll learn how to:
Understand the layered security model that protects Fabric Warehouses.
Configure controls that minimize risks and prevent common pitfalls.
Apply best practices for identity, access, and encryption to safeguard sensitive data.
Anticipate and address potential security gaps before they become problems.
Join this session to gain a practical, end-to-end perspective on how to secure your Fabric Warehouse and avoid the headaches that come with fragmented or incomplete security strategies.
Architecting Data Warehouse Medallion Architecture: From Ingestion to Security at Lightning Speed
Building a high-performing, secure, and future-ready data warehouse requires more than just loading data—it demands a well-structured architecture that balances speed, governance, and scalability. In this workshop, we’ll walk through how to design and implement a medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) in Microsoft Fabric, taking you end-to-end from raw data ingestion to refined, governed, and consumable insights.
*Please note that this workshop is hands-on and requires attendees to bring a laptop to participate.
Diving Deep: Data Mesh on Microsoft Fabric
In this session, we will explain how we can enable Data Mesh in Microsoft Fabric.
Looking at the main concepts of the Architectural Pattern and how Microsoft Fabric simplifies and empowers architects to achieve those.
By using components like OneLake Shortcuts and Data Domains, we will show how we can implement a Data Mesh architecture on Fabric.
Seamless Data Migration to Microsoft Fabric: Strategies and Best Practices
In the rapidly evolving world of data management, migrating from traditional SQL databases to modern data platforms like Microsoft Fabric is crucial for leveraging advanced analytics and real-time capabilities. This tech session focuses on effective strategies for migrating data from SQL to Fabric, providing practical insights and how to obtain the best performance,
This interactive, demo-based session will equip attendees with the knowledge to:
Migrating SQL Data to Fabric:
Understand the process and best practices for migrating data from SQL databases to Microsoft Fabric, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime.
Configuring Fabric for Optimal Performance:
Learn how to set up and configure Fabric to handle migrated data efficiently, optimizing for performance and scalability.
Querying Data in Fabric:
Explore the powerful querying capabilities of Fabric, including advanced techniques to retrieve and manipulate data effectively.
By the end of this session, attendees will have a comprehensive understanding of the migration process from SQL to Fabric, empowering them to manage and analyze their data more effectively. Whether you’re a data architect, a database administrator, or a data enthusiast, this session will provide the essential skills and knowledge to successfully transition to and leverage the capabilities of Microsoft Fabric in your data management strategies.
Inside Microsoft Fabric Datawarehouse Engine
Do you want to know how Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics can help you unlock the full potential of your data?
If yes, then join us for this session where we will explore the similarities and differences between these two powerful solutions. In this session, we will cover:
The architecture and features of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics, and how they enable you to build modern data platforms that support various analytics workloads.
The benefits and challenges of using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics, and how to choose the best option for your specific use cases and requirements.
The migration strategies and best practices for moving your existing data warehouse workloads from Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric.
The demo scenarios and examples that showcase the capabilities and performance of Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse Analytics in action.
Analytics Architectures on Microsoft Fabric
Data is the new oil, and analytics is the engine that drives value from it. However, the analytical workload has evolved over time, from simple reporting and dashboarding to complex machine learning and artificial intelligence. How can we keep up with the changing demands and challenges of data analytics? How can we leverage the latest technologies and innovations to transform our data into insights? In this presentation, we will explore the evolution of analytical workload and how Microsoft Fabric can help us achieve our data goals.
We will cover:
The history and trends of analytical workload, from descriptive analytics to predictive analytics to prescriptive analytics, and how they differ in terms of data types, processing methods, and use cases.
The challenges and opportunities of analytical workload, such as data volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value, etc., and how they affect the performance, scalability, reliability, and security of our data platforms.
The features and benefits of Microsoft Fabric, an end-to-end analytics platform that integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure OpenAI Service, Power BI, etc., into a single unified product that provides all the capabilities required for building modern data platforms that support various analytics workloads.
The demo scenarios and examples that showcase the capabilities and performance of Microsoft Fabric in action, such as data ingestion, etc.
Microsoft Fabric - Data Analytics for the era of AI
On this session, I intend to talk about what is Microsoft Fabric, what challenges we intend to solve by bringing this new product and talk about some of core engines that are part of the product.
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