Xavier is very passionate about teaching, helping others understand search and Big Data. He is also an entrepreneur, project manager, technical author, trainer, and holds a few certifications with Cloudera, Microsoft, and the Scrum Alliance, along with having received Microsoft MVP award.

He has spent a great deal of his career working on cutting-edge projects with a primary focus on Cloudera, Spark, .NET, Solr, and Hadoop among a few other interesting technologies.

Throughout multiple projects, he has acquired skills to deal with complex enterprise software solutions, working with companies that range from startups to Microsoft. Xavier also worked as a worldwide v-trainer/evangelist for Microsoft.