
Andrew Ruffin
Andrew is a Senior Product Manager at AMD with nearly a decade of experience in the semiconductor industry. He has worked in a variety of roles, including pricing strategy for AI products, ecosystem enabling for new memory and encryption technologies, and, most recently, launching and growing new AMD infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Before moving to the hardware and software world, he worked in science and technology policy as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.
Sessions for 2026
Choose the Right Azure Virtual Machines to Improve SQL Query Throughput
Don’t know where to start when it comes to choosing where to run SQL Server on Azure? Join this session to learn about the latest infrastructure for SQL on Azure. Get tips on how to quickly identify the VMs best suited for high performance with lower costs. Suited for DBAs who want to continuously improve the developer and end user experience while also keeping FinOps happy.