SPEAKER
Jerid
Fortney
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Data Architect II, Insight
Jerid is a Data Architect at Insight, helping enterprise clients design and operate modern data platforms across the Microsoft and Databricks ecosystems. His expertise spans Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Unity Catalog, and Azure data services, with a focus on the architecture decisions that determine whether a platform scales or collapses under governance debt.
His current work sits at the intersection of lakehouse architecture and applied GenAI — RAG pipelines, MLflow and Mosaic AI agents, and the Unity Catalog governance to keep them production-ready. A returning speaker, he presented at FabCon 2025 and 2026.
When he's not architecting data platforms, you'll find him under a barbell at his local CrossFit box.
His current work sits at the intersection of lakehouse architecture and applied GenAI — RAG pipelines, MLflow and Mosaic AI agents, and the Unity Catalog governance to keep them production-ready. A returning speaker, he presented at FabCon 2025 and 2026.
When he's not architecting data platforms, you'll find him under a barbell at his local CrossFit box.
Jerid's sessions
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