am Nathan Bijnens, a developer turned Solution Architect with a passion for great code, Big Data, AI and the Internet of Things. I am interested in programming and system administration, especially where they meet, from scaling platforms to designing the architecture of new and existing products and everything in between. I am a passionate speaker and evangelist, on AI, Big Data, IoT and Cloud. I am helping my customers with Digital Transformation and becoming Data Driven, as well as all their data in the Cloud needs. My focus is on data analytics and building Big Data applications. Using Spark, Storm, Hadoop, Cassandra, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Stream Analytics, EventHubs, Kafka and Azure IoT Hub. I am especially interested in real-time Big Data, actively developing applications on top of Spark Streaming and Storm, designing Lambda and Kappa-like architectures. I advise on Big Data Strategies and evangelize Cloud, Big Data and IoT to clients and at conferences.