Erlend Øien is a Data engineer and Scientist, working as a Consultant at Evidi with an MSc in Computer Science from NTNU, Norway. His academic background includes a focus on databases, search, and recommendation systems. Erlend’s skill set is a recipe of 3 cups data engineer, 1 cup software developer, 4 tablespoons data scientist, 2 teaspoons recommendation systems enthusiast, and a sprinkle of UX appreciation .

Erlend has dabbled with ML technologies for recommendation systems, explainable AI, as well as scaling workloads for distributed data processing. He has recently dedicated his efforts to data platform projects on Microsoft Fabric, with PySpark as his go-to tool. Moreover he is certified as an Azure Data Engineer, Data Scientist, and Fabric Analytics Engineer.

When Erlend is not refreshing the Microsoft Fabric blog for new features, he is passionate for everything regarding fermentation (and is edible or drinkable), particularly within the realm of baking!