Arshad Ali

Arshad Ali is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, working on the Microsoft Fabric product team in Redmond, WA. He focuses on Spark Runtime, which empowers both Data Engineering and Data Science experiences. Before that, he helped strategic customers and partners adopt Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric in his previous role. Arshad has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for over 16 years. He is the co-author of a book on Big Data Analytics with Azure HDInsight and the author of over 200 technical articles and blogs on data and analytics. Arshad holds an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and an MCA from India.