Fabric Data Engineering | Defensive Notebook Design

Michael Fortman is a Business Intelligence and Data Engineering practitioner with 30+ years of experience building data systems that balance practicality with architectural discipline. His current work centers on Microsoft Fabric and developing structured, defensive notebook patterns within medallion-based data platforms. Through “Doing More With Data,” Michael focuses on reducing cognitive load in analytics engineering by treating notebooks as engineered artifacts rather than interactive scratchpads. His interests include parameterization contracts, Spark execution behavior, governance-aware design, and scalable development workflows. He holds the DP-600 (Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer) certification and actively participates in the Microsoft data community