Silvano Coriani works on SQL and other data technologies since more than 25 years. He started as embedded systems developer in industrial automation and moved to data acquisition, processing and analysis working on distributed solutions. On the data tier, he worked on several RDBMS engines (SQL Server 6.0 and later releases, Oracle, IBM DB2 and more recently PostgreSQL), NoSQL and other analytical engines like Spark and Hadoop. On the application tier, he worked on C/C++, Visual Basic, Java and then moved into the .NET space since the very first release in early 2000.
He has worked in several industries, including Manufacturing, Retail and Financial Services as developer, self-employed consultant and trainer before joining Microsoft in 2003. Since then he’s been busy helping ISVs and Enterprise companies to learn and adopt Microsoft technologies as Developer Evangelist, and as Software Engineer in SQL Customer Advisory Team and recently in SQL Customer Success Engineering, Azure Data team. He’s also been active speaker on industry conferences like PASS Summit and Microsoft Ignite.
