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Waqas Dhillon

Waqas Dhillon

Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica

Waqas is the product management lead for machine learning with Vertica. In his current role, he drives the strategy and implementation of advanced analytics and machine learning features in the Vertica MPP platform. Waqas holds a bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering from NUST and a master’s degree in management from Harvard University.
Prior to his current role, Waqas has worked in multiple positions where he applied data analytics and machine learning for consumer research and revenue growth for companies in consumer packaged goods and telecommunication industries.

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Complex Data Types in SQL 2 – Benefits of SQL Support

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
December 19, 2019

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. In this second post in the blog series, let’s look at some of the reasons complex types are used extensively in organized big data formats like ORC and Parquet. Be sure to read the in this series where we discussed the , and explored the various complex types in...
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Complex Data Types in SQL 1 – What Are They?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
October 28, 2019

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. A lot of projects require querying ORC or Parquet files, or other data that may have internal types that are a bit more complex than usual. We support some of those complex types now, and are dedicated to adding full support for all complex types in Vertica. It’s a...
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In-Database Machine Learning 1 – Why Would You Do That?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern like Vertica allow you to do machine learning from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they have two questions. The first...