Andre Essing is a Solutions Architect with 25+ years in enterprise IT who specializes in designing cloud-native Lakehouse platforms and pragmatic data & AI strategies that scale with the business. He has deep experience modernizing Teradata and Hadoop estates into Databricks and Azure Lakehouse architectures, with a particular focus on aviation MRO, operations, and mission-critical analytics where reliability and regulatory constraints are paramount. At Databricks (and previously Microsoft) he partners with technical and business stakeholders to translate outcomes—faster insights, improved forecasting, cost efficiency—into sustainable platforms. A former Microsoft MVP, community leader and international speaker, he combines hands-on migration and architecture work with community-driven knowledge sharing. Notably, his background spans both low-level infrastructure and strategic deal wins, enabling him to balance operational stability with AI readiness.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fachinformatiker Systemintegration, Fachinformatiker Systemintegration at Industrie- und Handelskammer Duisburg
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