Nicolas Uthurriague
Principal Consultant at Microsoft
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNicolas Uthurriague is a Principal Consultant based in Amsterdam with 25+ years of hands-on experience turning complex enterprise data into actionable insight, currently building data-driven Business Productivity and Information Protection solutions at Microsoft. He combines deep expertise in enterprise search (FAST, Lucene/Solr, Elasticsearch) with practical skills in data governance, DLP, classification, auditing and eDiscovery, plus strong troubleshooting across Windows and Linux stacks. Known for scripting and custom tooling in PowerShell and C# to accelerate data collection and analysis, he has a track record supporting critical, high-availability platforms for banking and insurance clients. Nicolas has led EMEA search support, mentored teams, and driven readiness and customer satisfaction metrics while handling escalations and platform debugging. Recently he’s been bridging into data science and big data technologies through formal coursework (Microsoft, Berkeley/Databricks, ColumbiaX, MITx), bringing a research-minded approach to production problems. Colleagues praise his ability to reconstruct event timelines and infer behavioral flow—an investigative skill that often uncovers subtle root causes others miss.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Université Rennes 2
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (65)
azure10
mining9
python9
microsoft-azure9
gpu9
azure-cognitive-search9
deep-learning9
microsoft9
azure-cognitive-services9
machine-learning9
numpy8
neural-network8
dstoolkit8
translation8
tensor7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
puthurr/ocrlayout
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 60 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 6 months
puthurr/tika
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Custom Apache Tika version to improve embedded pictures handling in PDF and Office documents
Contributions:6 releases, 3 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 9 months
apache-tikapdfpicturestikaapache
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