Andrey Vykhodtsev works at Microsoft as a Regional Advanced Analytics & AI Architect, covering Central and Eastern Europe. Andrey has more than 20 years of experience building scalable analytics on open source and vendor technologies and a track record of senior Advanced Analytics architect and team leader roles in the companies like Teradata, Deutsche Bank, and IBM.  Andrey is a data science practitioner, fluent in Python, an expert and a trainer in open source projects like Apache Hadoop and Spark, and an organizer of various data science and big data-related events and meetups in Eastern Europe.