
Samu Niemelä
Samu Niemelä is a seasoned data architect and Domain Lead at Zure, where he helps organizations turn messy data into modern, scalable platforms—mostly on Microsoft Azure, and occasionally with some strong opinions. With over a decade of experience, he’s wrangled technologies like SQL Server, Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric. Samu lives in the liquorice capital of the world—Kouvola, Finland—with his family, lots of coffee, and surprisingly few debugging regrets.
Sessions for 2026
When Deployment Pipelines Aren’t Enough: CI/CD Patterns for Microsoft Fabric at Scale
When Fabric deployment pipelines aren’t enough, scale governed CI/CD with Azure DevOps and the Fabric CI/CD Python library. Learn workspace/environments, service principal access, and release gates for safe multi-team delivery.