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Bogdan Crivat
Bogdan Crivat
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Bogdan Crivat’s career is a testament to his deep passion for advanced analytics, machine learning, in-memory databases, and parallel computing. With a strong foundation in Mathematics and Computer Science, Bogdan’s academic journey began with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest in 1997. He further pursued his passion, earning a PhD from Universitatea… READ MORE

Justyna Lucznik
Justyna Lucznik
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Justyna leads the Fabric Data Engineering & Data Science PM team, focusing on experiences like the lakehouse, notebooks, Spark jobs, models & experiments. Her team focuses on empowering data engineers to build out a lakehouse architecture & data scientists to train and operationalize ML models. Prior to working on Fabric, Justyna led the Power BI… READ MORE

Alex van Grootel
Alex van Grootel
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Alex is a product manager at Microsoft Fabric where he leads the Generative AI creator experiences. Alex brings nearly a decade of hands-on AI experience. Previously he worked with Natural Language Processing at MIT, Materials & AI at Citrine Informatics, and Autonomous Systems at Microsoft Bonsai. He holds three Master Degrees from MIT in Computer… READ MORE

Avrilia Floratou
Avrilia Floratou
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Avrilia is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. Her work broadly lies in the area of data management with a recent focus on leveraging GenAI to improve developer productivity in domains such as data analysis, data integration and data science in Fabric. Avrilia received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison… READ MORE

Mark Pryce-Maher
Mark Pryce-Maher
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Mark Pryce-Maher is a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft Fabric. Primary focusing on the Mirroring, User Experiences and Migrations for the Data Warehouse. Mark has spent the last 7 years at Microsoft in the Big Data space, including helping many customers migrate from Netezza, Teradata, Oracle, APS, SQL Server to Synapse Data Warehouse.  

Sabre Ammar
Sabre Ammar
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I have been working in software testing and development with Microsoft (as a vendor) and at Microsoft (since 2019) for about 10 years, since 2014.  

Matt Basile
Matt Basile
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Matt has worked on big data systems for his entire career, with a focus on building analytics platforms that scale to meet any need.  

Maya Shenhav
Maya Shenhav
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Maya Shenhav is a principal PM, responsible for Power BI Consumer experiences in mobile applications and PowerPoint. Before that, she was an architect at Microsoft Consulting Service in the Israeli subsidiary. Before joining Microsoft, Maya worked for multiple ISVs, building software and solutions in the tech industry.