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.

Professional Photo Shoot in my previous role at Purple Frog

Data Platform Meetup Reading 2020

Data Scotland 2022

Speaking at the Red TShirt Dev Tour in Twickenham

My first SQL Bits talk on IoT

Microsoft Ignite Tour – London

Data Scotland 2022

AI Tech North 2019

MVP Summit 2017

Microsoft Ignite Tour – London

Data Relay 2018 – Birmingham

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

SQL Relay in Nottingham

SQL Saturday Belgium 2020

SQLBits 2017

Simon Whiteley, Terry McCann, Paul Andrew

In Cardiff for the MS MeetUp

Nottingham PASS Midlands

MVP Summit 2017

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

Data Scotland 2022

SQL Relay in Reading at the Microsoft TVP Campus

SQLBits 2019 Thursday helper team.

SQLBits 2018 as Tommy Cooper – Magic Theme!

Lock Down 2020 – Webcam Shot

SQLBits 2019 – Thursday Helper Briefing

Azure Data Factory by Example – Richard and Paul

Data Platform Meetup Newcastle 2019

Avanade Team

SQL Ireland 2019

SQL Relay 2017 at the Birmingham Odeon Cinema

Intelligent Cloud Conference 2019

SQL Saturday Cambridge

MSIgnite UK 2022

Stoke On Tech MeetUp

MSIgnite UK 2022

MVP 2019 – 2020

The Birstol Data Platform MeetUp

dataMinds Connect 2022

Proud of my new MVP jacket 🙂

SQL Saturday Cambridge

dataMinds Connect 2022

MVP Glassware Arrives

SQL Saturday Cambridge

Data Platform Meetup Birmingham

The PASS Summit 2016 vs 2017 Badges

dataMinds Connect 2022

Data Scotland 2022

SQL Saturday Manchester

SQL Saturday Manchester Precon

At the Nottingham Dev Group talking about U-SQL

All the hats at SQLBits

My first precon at SQL Saturday Manchester 2016

Data Platform Meetup Newcastle 2019

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.