andres padilla-andrade

Build Powerful AI/ML and Analytics Ecosystems in Azure

  • Microsoft Azure Development

  • Cloud Architecture in Practice

  • GenAI and Machine Learning

  • Analytics, Databricks & Fabric

  • Security & Resiliency Best Practices

  • DevOps, MLOps & LLMOps

  • AI Edge and Streaming Data

  • Data Ingestion, Landing, Transformation, Extraction & Reporting

APA - Build Amazing Cloud Ecosystems

About Me

I am a Principal Data/AI Engineer at Microsoft with over 20 years of experience across GenAI, Analytics, Streaming Data, ML, DevOps, LLMOPs, Devices and AI on the Edge. My journey has taken me from managing banking IT solutions to diving deep into big data and cloud technologies, even venturing into the startup world.

Today, I lead transformative AI/ML initiatives and help accelerate Azure adoption for customers across North/South America and Europe.

My expertise spans strategic planning, goal setting, team building, and cultivating strong relationships to ensure alignment with business objectives. I thrive on simplifying complex challenges, collaborating with stakeholders at all levels, and fostering innovation and growth. Whether refining cloud architectures, coding, or designing cutting-edge solutions, I aim to motivate and inspire teams to think differently and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

APA - Azure, Cloud Computing, AI Strategy and Execution, MLOps, LLMOps, Security, Resiliency, Data Ingestion, Data Landing, Data Movement, Automation

Core Strengths

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Cloud
Architecture

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Data
Object Storage

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GenAI
ML

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AI
Strategy

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Modern DW
Strategy

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Streaming
Data

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AI/MLOPs/LLMOps
Best Practices

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Data
Governance

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DevOps
CI/CD

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Azure
Security & Resiliency

  • Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified

    • Azure AI Engineer

    • Azure Developer

    • DevOps Engineer

    • Azure Data Scientist

    • Azure Data Engineer

    • Azure Security Engineer

    • Azure IoT Developer

    • Microsoft Certified (MCT)

  • Education

  • NYU

    Master of Science

    Management and Systems

  • UCLA

    Bachelor of Arts

    Business/Economics - Specialization in Computer Science

  • Role(s)

  • Microsoft

    Principal Data/AI Azure Engineer

    Providing the technical support and guidance customers need to onboard their planned solutions in Azure Data/Analytics and AI Services. Steering customers in the right direction towards completing and landing their architecture, supporting their builds in Azure, and enabling them to move to production and scale thier cloud operations.

    • Directly engaging with customers to validate their Azure solutions and POC’s.
    • Delivering key insights to scale best practices for GenAI/ML, Databricks, and Fabric adoption, enabling seamless integration and optimizing value for organizations.
    • Supporting customers in migrating and building workloads throughout their Azure journey, ensuring a smooth transition to production while expanding their cloud capabilities and footprint.
    • Driving overall Azure AI and Analytics adoption by simplifying complex solutions, making them more accessible and easier to implement.

  • Azure Technical Trainer

    Engaged, skilled and inspired employees from companies all over the world in Microsoft's Azure Cloud

    • Delivered advanced role-based custom deliveries to customers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Central and South America.
    • Lead internal training and demo sessions to help ATT colleagues get certified and prepared to deliver Worldwide Learning courseware
    • Ensured Developer course content was ready for digital-first consumption
    • ATT Developer Course Lead responsible for collaborating with both the ATT community and the content development team regarding feedback for the course and ensuring content and flow were accurate.
APA - Cloud Precision, Hard Work, Creativity

Vision

Precision

It means guiding a customer through a labyrinth of technologies, standards and best practices that exist in the Cloud. It means providing the depth and insight to find the right process, data and platform to solve a problem. It means future proofing your company and technology roadmap.

Innovate

It's about living with a constant desire to transform ideas into impactful solutions. It's about connecting ecosystems, enabling new service offerings, optimizing operations, developing new business models and ultimately streamlining an environment. It's about providing the core building blocks to make an exciting, elegant solution that controls, synchronizes, and automates processes and 'things'.

Discovery

Cloud Analytics, Storage, GenAI, ML and IoT is about finding new ways to take a tired, calcified process and making it work better. It's about applying fresh thinking to old problems and streamlining the development process with the right solution. It's about creating new opportunities for businesses and making them smarter about how they ultimately Direct & Deliver.

Services

ANALYZE a system. IDENTIFY opportunities. IMPROVE the Life Cycle.

COMMUNICATE complex ideas. DESIGN them elegantly. SELL & INFLUENCE people to believe in them.

Cloud Strategy

Analytics

Cost Optimization

Disaster Recovery

API Integration

Technology Assessment

Security Best Practices

Measurement

Monitoring and Alerting

Process Automation

APA - Architect The Cloud

This is what I love to do.

Architect the Cloud

Accelerate Innovation

Transform ideas into impactful product concepts faster and easier. Once the key project requirements are identified, choose the right technological solution to build a virtual prototype of the project. Find and fix application problems faster and reduce downtime with the cloud.

Drive Greater Efficiency.

Create worry-free dev-test environments. Create application test environments using reusable artifacts. Leverage the cloud to maximize cost savings without adding too much process overhead.

Extend Your Reach

Connect VNets to your on-premises network, and expand your network to the cloud while keeping control over resources. Scale up and scale out operations to improve availability and performance of your web apps and virtual machines.

Disaster Recovery

Automate the orderly recovery of services in the event of a site outage. Perform backups on a daily basis and replicate across multiple locations to eliminate the possibility of data loss.

APA - Cloud Architecture Vision

Real-Time, Intelligent Data Applications.

The Target

STREAM

Capture and enhance your data.

COMPUTE

Process, monitor and control.
Visualize your end solution and iterate till you reach confidence.

ACCESS

Safely and securely share your knowledge.

APA - Cloud and IoT Consulting

Design your product, build-in intelligence, launch to the cloud, manage the data.

Discover

Sit down with the business and plan out their requirements, and how the solution will fit into that road map. Analyze the job at hand and make informed decisions to ensure the right tools are used to solve the problem.

Direct

Quickly spin up instances and applications as test beds for ideas, projects and programs at little or no cost, and just as quickly change or adapt them as required. Keep everything organized, but flexible, to make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Deliver

Code validated, design done, usability and accessibility tested, we're ready for take off. Congratulations! Let's launch and add in some application insights to quickly monitor, iterate and manage your apps, models, data and systems.

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New project?
Have an idea?
Want to grab a coffee?

Let's get together and talk about that huge idea or project you've got on your mind.

Hit me up!

Let’s bring your environment to life. Let’s add some creativity, some precision. Let's make your project shine. Let’s make something that lives between science and art

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Science.

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Creativity.

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Precision.

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Art.

Approach

APA - Build Amazing Cloud Ecosystems

Contact Me

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