Josh is a Principal Engineer in Azure Engineering on the Azure CXP FastTrack Team at Microsoft and a co-host of the show Tales from the Field, focusing on helping customers to understand how to architect workloads for the cloud, while accelerating and reducing risk on their journey to Azure. His primary focus is on data platform and analytics workloads. He is a regular speaker at events like Live360, Microsoft Ignite, Professional Association of SQL Server(PASS) events, Code on the Beach, and other IT conferences. He has worked in IT for over 10 years holding positions in Application Support, Database Administration, and Business Intelligence, in industries like Higher Education, Consulting, Manufacturing, and Software Development.