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Rimma Nehme

Rimma is a GPM in Azure Cosmos DB. Previously an architect in Azure Cosmos DB and the open-source software analytics team at Microsoft. She also jump started Polybase technology and shipped it in SQL DW, SQL Server PDW, and SQL Server 2016. She's also a PHD in computer science from Purdue, and has an MBA from the university of Chicago.

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