Zoiner Tejada,
Chief Executive Officer,
Solliance
Zoiner Tejada has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry as a software architect, CTO, and start-up CEO, with particular expertise in cloud computing, big data, analytics, and machine learning. Beyond managing Solliance, Zoiner spends much of his time leading an expert team of data scientists and data engineers building sophisticated data pipelines for advanced analytics, capturing the best practices and learnings which the team delivers in trainings and hackathons to all sizes of customers. He was among the first to receive a Microsoft Azure MVP (“Most Valuable Professional”) designation and has since been awarded the MVP for eight consecutive years, including a dual MVP award for Azure and Data Platform and most recently for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Additionally, he is recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft Regional Director.
Zoiner is the author of a dozen books that range from business strategy to technical references on Azure. His most recent books include the Data Platform Practice Development Playbook and the Artificial Intelligence Practice Development Playbooks from Microsoft which inform Microsoft partners how to build their business and technical strategy to grow, nurture and optimize consulting practices in these areas. He also wrote Mastering Azure Analytics published by O’Reilly (which covers a broad range of analytics solutions from real-time processing with Storm, to Interactive/Batch processing with Spark, the application of Machine Learning and many other Data/Analytics related Azure services). He is also co-author of Exam Ref 70-532: Programming Microsoft’s Clouds (the official exam study guide for developers seeking Azure certification), co-author of Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, and creator of the “Google Analytics Fundamentals” course on Pluralsight.com. He received his BS in computer science from Stanford University.
