Summary
Anna-maria Wykes is a seasoned lead technical specialist and Microsoft AI MVP with nearly two decades of experience delivering data and software engineering solutions across cloud platforms. She blends practical backend engineering (Scala, .NET) and event-driven architectures (Kafka, Kinesis) with large-scale data work—building Data Lakes, Spark pipelines and Databricks-centric analytics. As a resident solutions architect and consultant she helps organisations migrate, operate and scale Azure/Databricks environments while championing DataOps, MLOps and LLMOps practices. Anna-maria’s background spans hands-on microservices, data warehousing and real-time analytics to training and practice-building for consultancies, giving her rare fluency across software development and data science teams. Based in Bristol, she is active in local STEM outreach and code clubs, reflecting a long-standing commitment to mentoring and community-driven technical growth. Quietly pragmatic, she often bridges strategy and delivery by turning ambitious AI/data initiatives into operational, production-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Media, Media Studies, Media, Media Studies at Coventry College
BSC (Hons), Multimedia; Computing and Business, BSC (Hons), Multimedia; Computing and Business at University of Gloucestershire
Multimedia, Multimedia at Coventry University
HND, Visual Communication; Art and Design, HND, Visual Communication; Art and Design at Birmingham City University