Hi, I'm Taylor Amy
Data Engineer & Sysadmin sharing practical knowledge from the field.
About Me
I'm a data engineer and systems administrator with experience across multiple industries, including 5.5 years in healthcare, where I served as the primary administrator for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and a range of related systems. I now work in the mining industry and have consulted in other sectors along the way.
I built this blog to share the practical patterns, fixes, and insights I've picked up working in production environments across different organizations. The problems tend to follow you from industry to industry. The specifics change, the platform challenges don't.
What I Work With
My day-to-day involves a mix of modern cloud platforms and on-premises infrastructure. I spend most of my time in Microsoft Fabric, but I also manage on-prem Power BI Report Servers, ETL tooling, and various data engineering platforms. This hybrid environment has taught me a lot about bridging the gap between legacy systems and modern data platforms across organizations of very different shapes and sizes.
Microsoft Fabric
Primary administrator: lakehouses, pipelines, capacity optimization in production.
Power BI
On-prem Report Server management, enterprise deployments, and performance tuning.
Data Engineering
ETL pipelines, data integration platforms, and scalable data workflows across industries.
Systems Administration
Managing infrastructure, deployments, and keeping production systems running smoothly.
Why I Write This Blog
Across every environment I've worked in, the same pattern shows up: you run into a Fabric or Power BI problem, the docs don't quite cover it, and you end up reverse-engineering the answer yourself. I started this blog to document those solutions. If I figured something out, maybe it'll save someone else the same three hours of digging (or remind future-me what I did).
Topics I Cover
- Microsoft Fabric administration
- Lakehouse patterns & best practices
- Data pipeline optimization
- Power BI Report Server management
- Performance tuning & troubleshooting
- Governance & security
- Hybrid cloud/on-prem architectures
- Real-world fixes & workarounds
Disclaimer: Everything I share comes from real-world experience, but your environment is different from mine. Always test solutions in your own setup before pushing to production.
See What I'm Working On
Check out the posts to see what problems I've been solving lately.
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