Meet Merca Ovnerud - a Databricks Community Top Contributor

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:44:35 GMT

Job Title: Developer, Data Engineer, Functioning Azure Architect

What are three words your coworkers would use to describe you?

Finds solutions

Always happy

No nonsense

What is your favorite thing about your current job/role?

Get to do all the fun stuff

Love when stuff breaks - this how we learn new things

What sort of duties do you have at work?

Do all the things

Do you have any mentors in your professional life?

No, I don't know that many on professional level

How long have you been using Databricks?

About 2 years

Do you have a favorite Databricks feature? Something that makes your life a lot easier? Or more interesting?

Live Tables (when they support merge and become available)

Databricks SQL Analytics

Dashboards (in SQL)

Is there a Databricks feature you want to see in the future?

Easy conversion from scala to python

External tables from Azure SQL DB or any relational DB with jdbc connector

Make it (databricks sql) more as virtual layer on top of all other sources (blob or rdb or graph etc) - then you will become the biggest on the market

Anything you want to add about being a woman in tech? (March is Women’s History Month)

Girl Power!

Thanks for the tiny interview, @ merca!! It's always fun to get to know our peers better. We'll see you around the community! 😊

Re: Meet Merca Ovnerud - a Databricks Community Top Contributor

Hubert-Dudek — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:36:44 GMT

Nice to meet you @Lindsay Olson and @Merca Ovnerud 🙂 💪 👏 😍

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