Manish Kumar is an Azure-focused Associate Consultant with over 17 years in IT and 11 years of hands-on experience migrating and modernizing big data platforms to the cloud. He designs and leads end-to-end Azure data solutions—Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Functions and Data Lake—while implementing CI/CD, log analytics and automated data-quality frameworks for large Oil & Gas, banking and utilities clients. With a strong Hadoop and Spark background (Scala, PySpark) from earlier roles at IBM, he blends legacy big-data expertise with cloud-native architectures to minimize migration risk and maximize performance. He’s also applied performance testing (JMeter) and automation (Ansible, Azure Pipelines) to accelerate deployments and observability. Based in Utrecht, he maintains an active interest in machine learning and Python, reflecting a practical curiosity beyond core data engineering.
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