Scott Klein
Data Platform Technical Evangelist
Microsoft
Scott Klein is a Microsoft data platform technical evangelist who lives and breathes data. His passion for data technologies brought him to Microsoft in 2011 and has allowed him to travel all over the globe evangelizing SQL Server and Microsoft’s Big Data and cloud data services. Prior to Microsoft, Scott was one of the first four SQL Azure MVPs, even though those don’t exist anymore. Scott has authored several books about SQL Server and Azure SQL Database and continues to look for ways to help developers and companies grok the benefits of cloud computing. He also thinks “grok” is an awesome word. Scott’s fascination with data and the growth of Big Data and the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies has led him to the fantastic world of data discovery and data analytics.