About

I see you’ve come to my About page. Was the short summary in the side bar not good enough? 🙂

Ok, you want more. Well here’s the detailed version. Mr Paul Andrew, known to his friends as the grumpy one (but please judge for yourself) was born in the great year of 1985, entering into the world with a T-SQL script in hand, ready to manipulate all data foreign and domestic…

Ha, not really! Instead of words, I think pictures are a better way to get to know me. Unless you want a copy of my CV, in which case, please click here. Or maybe you want to see my Sessionize profile, here. If these things still aren’t good enough, then please just drop me an email paul@mrpaulandrew.com.

Avanade Team

dataMinds Connect 2022

MVP Glassware Arrives

Nottingham PASS Midlands

AI Tech North 2019

Speaking at the Red TShirt Dev Tour in Twickenham

Big Data London, Nov18 at the London Olympia. Talking about SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters

Simon Whiteley, Terry McCann, Paul Andrew

SQLBits 2017

Microsoft Ignite Tour – London

SQLBits 2019 Thursday helper team.

My first precon at SQL Saturday Manchester 2016

SQL Bits with Chris Testa O’Neil talking about Azure Data Factory

dataMinds Connect 2022

SQL Saturday Cambridge

Data Scotland 2022

SQL Saturday Manchester Precon

Stoke On Tech MeetUp

SQL Saturday Belgium 2020

The Birstol Data Platform MeetUp

Professional Photo Shoot in my previous role at Purple Frog

Data Scotland 2022

Lock Down 2020 – Webcam Shot

MVP Summit 2017

Data Platform Meetup Reading 2020

Data Scotland 2022

In Cardiff for the MS MeetUp

MSIgnite UK 2022

SQLBits 2019 – Thursday Helper Briefing

All the hats at SQLBits

My first SQL Bits talk on IoT

MVP Summit 2017

Intelligent Cloud Conference 2019

MVP 2019 – 2020

MSIgnite UK 2022

SQL Saturday Manchester

At the Nottingham Dev Group talking about U-SQL

Data Scotland 2022

dataMinds Connect 2022

Data Platform Meetup Newcastle 2019

Proud of my new MVP jacket 🙂

SQL Saturday Cambridge

SQL Relay 2017 at the Birmingham Odeon Cinema

SQL Saturday Cambridge

Data Platform Meetup Birmingham

The PASS Summit 2016 vs 2017 Badges

Azure Data Factory by Example – Richard and Paul

Data Platform Meetup Newcastle 2019

dataMinds Connect 2022

SQL Relay in Nottingham

SQL Relay in Reading at the Microsoft TVP Campus

SQLBits 2018 as Tommy Cooper – Magic Theme!

Data Relay 2018 – Birmingham

SQL Ireland 2019

Microsoft Ignite Tour – London

About Me

mrpaulandrew

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric. Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.