Andrew Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur, and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology. He has been a developer magazine columnist and conference speaker since the mid-90s, and a technology book writer and blogger since 2005. Andrew serves as Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing and Evangelism at Datameer, a big data analytics company.
Andrew does consulting work for various software and technology solution providers, including, very often, Microsoft partner companies and, on occasion, for Microsoft itself. Andrew is also a member of several Microsoft expert and influencer programs, for which he receives no monetary compensation. He does not own discrete shares in any tech company other than his own.