Portland Azure User Group – August 20

Abhilash Sharma is a Principal Data Architect and Generative AI Architect with over nine years of experience designing and developing scalable products across retail, fintech, and healthcare. He specializes in building and architecting modern data stacks, including end-to-end data lakehouse solutions, data modeling, business intelligence, and governance infrastructure. In his current role, he leads the development of a Master Data platform, designing foundational lakehouse features and identity resolution pipelines that process billions of rows daily to generate insights and drive customer engagement. Abhilash has deep expertise in big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, and Graph Databases, along with proficiency in streaming technologies like Apache Kafka. He is also skilled in deploying microservices on Kubernetes and leveraging Azure Cloud Services, including Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and CosmosDB. Passionate about distributed computing and data engineering, he continues to push the boundaries of AI-driven solutions at scale.