About me

I'm Teemu Multanen, a Senior Data Engineer at Norrin and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) based in Finland.

My path into data wasn't a straight line. I spent eight years in the manufacturing industry as a maintenance electrician, fixing, assembling, and designing robots, CNC machines, and production lines. That work pulled me into logical PLC programming, and it was there I found I loved the logic of it. That spark led me to study computer science at university, and afterward I moved into a data role at the same company, staying over a decade with one employer in total.

For the last two-plus years, my focus has been Microsoft Fabric. That mix of years in hands-on industrial systems followed by data engineering at scale means I approach Fabric from the ground up: how to design data architectures that are practical, hold up in production, and actually solve the real problem in front of them.

Alongside my work at Norrin, a large part of what I do is community. Mentoring and contributing to communities has been a constant throughout my life. I mentored trainees in my previous role, worked as a tutor at university, and spent three years in our student association as event manager and chairman. So when I moved into data, the chance to do the same in a fast-growing, welcoming space was something I jumped at.

I co-founded Fabric Forge, a learning community dedicated to Microsoft Fabric, where a team of specialists helps people build real, practical skills across the whole platform. In addition to Fabric Forge, I founded Doforme Data through which I provide independent Microsoft Fabric training as well. I also speak regularly at user groups and Microsoft Reactor sessions, moderate the Microsoft Fabric Discord, help organize the Azure & Friends user group, and share practical Fabric content and certification prep on LinkedIn and YouTube.

The thread running through all of it is a belief that Microsoft Fabric is too broad for any one person to master alone, and that the best way to learn it is hands-on, alongside others, from people who work with it every day. That's what I try to make possible, both in my own work and in the communities I'm part of.