Chris Seferlis is a Data and AI Specialist with Microsoft. He has 20+ years’ experience working in IT and solving technical challenges from a business perspective. Chris has spent the past 2 years at Microsoft to help architect and deploy Azure Analytics, Big Data and AI solutions taking a 'customer first' approach in building the best solution for the customer, regardless of technology
Chris has over 20 years experience working in IT and solving technology challenges accomplishing business goals. Chris is a Microsoft Certified Cloud Solution Architect with an MBA from UMass bringing a mix of business acumen, with practical technology solutions, focusing on the Azure Data Platform. Chris is a firm believer in starting small with projects to create business value as quickly as possible, helping the larger project gain momentum and build excitement with key stakeholders.
In this video Chris describes some of the most common data workloads that are being deployed on Azure and which of the 3 major compute engines are best for each workload.
Chris has been on 5 of 7 continents and completed a 150 mile B2VT cycle in 12 hours