Benny Austin
Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Austin is a Cloud Solution Architect based in Sydney with nine years focused on designing and delivering Azure PaaS and big data solutions at scale, currently working at Microsoft. He combines deep data engineering expertise—Databricks, Data Factory, Stream Analytics, Azure SQL DW, HDInsight—with strong DevOps and IaC skills using Azure DevOps and ARM templates. Certified in Apache Spark and Cassandra and fluent in C#, Python, Scala, R and SQL dialects, he brings hands-on experience across AWS EMR and Hortonworks as well as traditional BI stacks like SSIS/SSAS and Kimball dimensional modeling. His background includes enterprise engagements across finance, healthcare and government, translating complex data landscapes into secure, production-ready analytics platforms. Known for bridging BI heritage with modern cloud analytics, he often surfaces operational insights via monitoring, Log Analytics and Power BI rather than just handing over models. He pairs an MBA and engineering degree with a pragmatic focus on maintainable, governed data solutions that accelerate business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Annamalai UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Bharathidasan University
Github Skills (40)
azure-databricks10
pyspark10
accelerator10
azure-data-factory10
data-platform10
azure-devops-pipelines10
etl-framework10
orchestration-framework10
pipeline10
azure-synapse-analytics10
microsoft-fabric10
fabric10
azure10
devops10
delta10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bennyaustin/synapse-dataplatform
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023
A modern data platform implemented on Azure Synapse Analytics using ELT Framework - https://github.com/bennyaustin/elt-framework. Data platform infrastructure provisioned using https://github.com/bennyaustin/iac-synapse-dataplatform
Contributions:2 reviews, 563 commits, 153 PRs in 1 year 7 months
azure-synapse-analyticsdata-platformeltpysparkmssparkutils
bennyaustin/logicapp-synapse-sqlpool
Jul 2021 - Aug 2024
Azure Logic App to Pause, Resume, Dial-Up and Dial-Down a Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool
Contributions:8 PRs, 20 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 1 month
azure-data-factoryazure-logic-appssynapse-analyticssynapse-pipeline
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