Michael
Patterson

Michael Patterson is Vice President of AI Data Platforms and Analytics at Perficient, where he leads the firm's Databricks practice. A 30 year veteran of enterprise data, Michael's career spans hands on architecture at United Airlines, TransUnion, and EMC, strategic leadership at Red Hat and Confluent, and now building Perficient's AI First Agentic consulting model. He is pioneering agentic AI delivery, where intelligent agents are embedded into every phase of client engagements to accelerate outcomes on the Databricks platform. Michael's teams partner with Databricks across major industry verticals to deliver lakehouse modernization, real world evidence, and AI operationalization at scale.