Denny Lee

Denny Lee is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft for the Azure DocumentDB team - Microsoft’s blazing fast, planet-scale managed document store service. He is a hands-on distributed systems and data sciences engineer with more than 18 years of experience developing internet-scale infrastructure, data platforms, and predictive analytics systems for both on-premise and cloud environments. Prior to joining the Azure DocumentDB team, Denny worked as a Technology Evangelist at Databricks; he has been working with Apache Spark since 0.5. He was also the Senior Director of Data Sciences Engineering at Concur, and was on the incubation team that built Microsoft's Hadoop on Windows and Azure service (currently known as HDInsight). Denny also has a Masters of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Sciences University and has architected and implemented powerful data solutions for enterprise Healthcare customers for the last fifteen years.