Andy Petrella

Andy Petrella has a wealth of experience in the tech industry. Andy began their career in 2009, working as a Senior Developer for ProduWeb. In 2010, they moved to Hexagon Geospatial, where they worked as a Senior Developer. In 2013, they Co-Founded WAJUG and in 2014, they worked as a Cloud|Data|Advisor Engineer for Virdata and as a Program Committee Member: Big Data specialist for FOSS4G. In 2015, they became a PMC Member for O'Reilly Media and a Founder | Chief Product Officer for Kensu. In 2020, they authored a report titled "What is Data Governance? Understanding the Business Impact" for O'Reilly Media and in 2022, they are set to release a sequel to the series of books, articles, and talks they have given since 2013 titled "Fundamentals of Data Observability (a.k.a. FODO)".

Andy Petrella has a comprehensive educational background. Andy completed a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computer Science from the University of Liège in 2005-2006, a Master of Science - MS in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Liège in 2003-2005, and a Diploma of Profound Studies in Geometrology-Geomatics Sciences from the University of Liège in 1999-2003. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications from Coursera Verified Certificates and Coursera, including Developing Data Products, Practical Machine Learning, Regression Models, Reproducible Research, Exploratory Data Analysis, Statistical Inference, Getting and Cleaning Data, R Programming, The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, Machine Learning, Introduction to Data Science, Social Network Analysis, Computing for Data Analysis, and Functional Programming Principles in Scala.