Sandy is a Lead Data Engineer and Databricks Champion at Elastacloud where he has worked for 6 years on myriad projects ranging from SME to FTSE 100 customers. He is a strong advocate of Databricks on Azure and using Spark to solve Big Data problems. Having worked on one of the original Databricks on Azure projects he continues to expand his Big Data knowledge using new Open Source technologies such as Delta Lake and ML Flow.

Sandy co-organises the Data Science London meet-up and continues to try to push what he picks up back to the community so they can learn from his mistakes. Having spoken at Spark Summit, Future Decoded, Red Shirt tours and more his knowledge range covers most of the Azure Data Stack with a keen interest in Big Data, Machine Learning and Data Visualisation.