Rimma Nehme

Rimma Nehme

Technical Advisor, Data Platform, Microsoft, USA

Rimma Nehme is a TA to Joseph Sirosh, the Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft. She has been one of the inspiring technical leaders at Microsoft. Previously, she was a Principal Software Engineer in the Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, where she jump-started Polybase technology for SQL Server 2016 and SQLDW, worked on the cost-based query optimizer in SQL Server PDW/SQLDW, and numerous other database products and technologies including SQL Server Live Query Statistics, and Partial Results for Database Systems. Rimma holds a CS PhD from Purdue University and an MBA from University of Chicago.