Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes India Pvt Ltd as a database engineer and is a Microsoft Data Platform Reconnect MVP. In his day to day job at Pitney Bowes, he works on developing and maintaining high performance on-premise and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments, building CI/CD environments for databases and automation.

Other than his day to day work, Ahmad blogs at "dataplatformlabs" and has written over 100 blogs on various topics, including SQL Server Administration/Development, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Data Factory. He regularly speaks at user group events and webinars conducted by the Dataplatformlabs community. You can reach him on LinkedIn at "ahmadosama3" or follow his twitter handle @_ahmadosama.

Mohit Gupta works as a Solutions Architect with Pitney Bowes India Pvt Ltd and is focused on Cloud technologies and DevOps methodologies. Mohit has more than 12 years of experience in Software Product Development and has worked on AWS and Azure technologies since 2012. Mohit has helped customers of all sizes design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on various cloud-based products including AWS and Azure. He received his Bachelors of Technology from Kurukshetra University. Additionally, he holds many Industry-leading IT Certifications. Learn more about Mohit's work at his blogspot page "mogupta".

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