Maria Zakourdaev

Maria is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and a technology expert with more than 20 years of experience, a community leader with a profound knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real-world problems. She has a hands-on experience managing various data management technologies in Azure, AWS and Google public cloud platforms, including SQL Server, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgresql, Snowflake, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Couchbase and Elasticsearch, Spark, Databricks, Big Query. She is the main organizer of the Israel annual conference "DATA TLV" datatlv.com, one of the featured authors at mssqltips.com (mssqltips.com/sqlserverauthor/305/maria-zakourdaev) and her personal blog is blamblogger.blogspot.com

Maria Zakourdaev's Sessions

Building Tomorrow's Warehouse Today: Modern Data Warehouse Modelling InsightsSQLBits 2024

This session explores the fundamental shifts in data warehousing architecture and data processing design principles

The Decentralized Data Access RevolutionSQLBits 2024

During this session, we will discuss why many companies shift towards decentralized data access architectures. We will discuss Data Mesh and Data Fabric paradigms, and explore their principles, benefits and challenges.

Analyzing Big Data in Azure cloud using Spark and DatabricksSQLBits 2023

During this session, we will talk about Azure Databricks' key features, and typical scenarios where Spark can fit, will see a lot of demos and I will share my top list of Azure Databricks best practices.

Building Your Data Analytics Team - live RunAs Radio episodeSQLBits 2023

Panel Discussion moderated by Richard Campbell of RunAs Radio!