Jared Kuehn
Data Guy by day, Storyteller by night
📋 Biography
For over a decade, Jared has been a data engineering consultant implementing Microsoft products. For more than three decades, he has been honing his skills in theater and other performing arts. As a speaker, Jared marries these two disciplines together, creating dynamic presentations that add entertainment to education, fostering a culture of passion for the data industry. As a speaker, Jared has spoken at events such as: -FabCon -DataCon Seattle (Microsoft Data Conference) -PASS Summit -SQL Saturdays, Multiple -Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference -Future Data Driven Summit -GroupBy Conference He also runs the YouTube channel DataBard, focused on making Data fun and teaching techniques along the way. Technically-speaking, Jared has multiple Microsoft certifications in both on-prem and cloud technologies. He has extensive knowledge in: -Microsoft Fabric -SQL Tools -SQL Query Development -Kimball Data Modeling -ETL design patterns -Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI
✨ High-Impact Contributions 1
Introduces attendees (target audience are those with no prior Spark or Fabric Notebook experience) to Python and Apache Spark fundamentals, then showcases how Fabric makes it easier to manage and implement PySpark code. Covers simple administration in defining Environments and UI features that make it easy to find data sources. It also covers how to connect to Spark sessions, read/write data in a lakehouse, and transform data using Data Wrangler. The presentation ends with highlighting community-built resources to help attendees take their next steps in incorporating this tech into their Fabric implementation.