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### YamlMime:Profile
uid: rd.richard-conway
name: Richard Conway
metadata:
title: Richard Conway - Microsoft Regional Director
description: Microsoft Regional Director, Software Engineer, and Data Scientist in London, United Kingdom
remarks: |
## Bio
Welcome to my profile. My name is Richard Conway. I'm a Microsoft Regional
Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Azure. I'm a Director of
Elastacloud which is a Data Science consultancy working across key business
sectors such as retail, finance, engineering and others.
As well as my role in business, I'm an author of books and courses and a key
contributor to Apache open source projects with a love for all things cloud
and data. Over the years I've become proficient in C++, C#, Java, Scala,
Python and R and I mix and match these skills for my customers and community
on a daily basis.
I love speaking to new audiences on aspects of cloud, data science and data
platform and have spoken all across Europe over the last few years.
I'm a strong advocate of communities and over the years founded @ukazure and a
few others.
As an advocate for child education in IT I've been working closely with Code
Club in the UK. My most recent community contribution has been
[AzureCraft](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukschools/2016/05/16/3rd-4th-
june-azurecraft-the-power-to-create-the-future-is-now-in-your-hands/), an
annual two day event for developers, parents and kids to teach the Cloud and
Programming through Minecraft.
Talk to me about: Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Apache Spark, Statistics, Machine
Learning, Deep Learning
## Spotlight
As a Microsoft Regional Director I've always challenged the status quo in both
my business and community activities. Having used Microsoft Azure since its
inception to conquer difficult tasks, I've not let lack of a platform service
stop me from building large scale data solutions.
The combination of my zest for big data and data science led me to becoming an
early adopter for Apache Spark and HDInsight. I’ve had the opportunity to
transform a data orchestration pipeline for a large high-tech manufacturing
company. Combinations of Apache Spark on HDInsight, R-Server and SQL DW were
used to build precise ingestion pipelines that revolutionised the flow and
scale of data. With such a heavy usage of Azure comes a heavy usage of
governance so we also built in a fine-grained analytical control panel giving
them cost-optimisation of all their Azure assets across 10s of subscriptions.
I look at Microsoft Azure and can relate to Satya’s vision of the Intelligent
Cloud. It’s been my privilege to live and breathe this vision as it unfolds
before my eyes. In the years to come I see large scale adoption of intelligent
services where Microsoft Azure is the bridge between analytics and devices
providing real-time, low-latency answers to everything from medical diagnoses
to predicting which cinema film I want to watch next.
tagline: Astronomy / Data Science
image:
alt: "Richard Conway"
src: media/profiles/richard-conway.jpg
connect:
- title: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/azurecoder
- title: LinkedIn
url: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardelastacloud
- title: GitHub
url: https://github.com/azurecoder
location:
display: London, England, United Kingdom
lat: 51.51042
long: -0.12321