Senior Data Engineer · Microsoft Fabric Expert · Healthcare Data Leader
I'm a Senior Data Engineer based in Salt Lake City, UT, specializing in Microsoft Fabric, healthcare analytics, and cloud-native data platforms. I hold the Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management (FACHDM) designation and bring deep expertise in turning complex health data into actionable intelligence.
Currently, I'm building a cloud-native data warehouse for a nationwide preventive healthcare company — designing scalable, production-grade pipelines and analytics layers on Microsoft Fabric.
I'm also a Distinguished Top-10 Mentor in Data Engineering on ADPList and a Distinguished Jury Member for AI in Healthcare at the Digital Health Hub Foundation.
🔷 Microsoft Fabric & Azure — End-to-end data engineering: lakehouses, warehouses, pipelines, capacity optimization, and governance at scale.
🤖 AI + Data Engineering — LLM integration, agentic AI for healthcare research (AutoCohort), and practical local-LLM workflows with Ollama.
📊 Analytics & Leadership — Bridging the gap between technical data engineering and business-facing analytics, with a Scrum-based delivery mindset.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| fabric-pulse | Emergency debugging toolkit for Microsoft Fabric — lineage tracing, table/workspace discovery, and rapid production triage |
| fabric-diagram | Draw.io templates for building professional Microsoft Fabric architecture diagrams |
🎤 Conference Speaker — SQL Saturday San Diego (2024 & 2025), Fabcon 2026, SQL Saturday Atlanta
📝 Published Author
- "The Developer's Guide to Local LLMs: Building, Running, and Scaling With Ollama" — DZone, Feb 2026
- "Top Trends in Big Data in 2025" — DAMA Ukraine, Jul 2025
- "Microsoft Fabric: The Developer's Guide on API Automation of Security and Data Governance" - DZone, Mar 2026
🎓 FACHDM — Fellow, American College of Health Data Management (2025)
🌟 Distinguished Top-10 Mentor in Data Engineering — ADPList (2025)
⚖️ Distinguished Jury Member, AI in Healthcare — Digital Health Hub Foundation (2025)
Platforms Microsoft Fabric · Azure · Databricks
Languages Python · SQL · DAX · PySpark
Orchestration Apache Airflow · Fabric Pipelines
Data Standards OHDSI OMOP CDM · FHIR
AI / ML OpenAI · Ollama · LangChain · Agentic AI
Methodology Scrum (PSM I) · Adaptive Leadership
- American College of Health Data Management — Fellow
- DAMA — Data Administration Management Association — Member & Author
- Salt Lake Valley Fabric and Microsoft Data Platforms User Group - Co-lead
Let's connect — I'm always open to conversations about data engineering, Microsoft Fabric, healthcare analytics, and leadership.