By Maxx Glans November 22, 2024
Richard Nordström is Unwonted!
Cloud Specialist
We are happy to announce that Richard Nordström has joined Unwonted as a Cloud Specialist! He will help our customers succeed in Azure, and we’re incredibly excited to have him on the team! 🎉
We asked some quick questions to Richard:
What’s a feature in Azure you can work with over and over again without getting tired of it?
- Data! Most projects usually involve it in one way or another, it can be anything from platform infrastructure and automation to final datasets. So there is always something new to explore or optimize.
You have earned recognition as a certified Databricks Champion, what is that?
- It is an invitation-only program for Databricks practitioners who have shown success in delivering multiple Databricks-centric implementations. Or perhaps more simply put - a verified Databricks nerd!
We heard you liked Lakehouse-based data platforms. But if you had to explain what that means to a 5-year-old, how would you do it?
- Lakehouse is the new generation data platform, combining the best attributes of previous ones. It offers the scale and flexibility of affordable cloud storage, with the reliability associated with a traditional Datawarehouse. And in the spirit of today, it would be a misconduct not to mention that it is the perfect foundation and fit for your AI use-cases. Possibly it became more suitable for a 6-year-old?
If you could invent something, what would it be and why?
- A laptop with unlimited battery life! Because who hasn’t been in that meeting or screen share, only to see your battery die at the worst possible moment?
What’s the coolest project you’ve ever worked on using Azure?
- A project so cool, it’s unfortunately behind an NDA.
Disc Golf or Boomer Golf?
- The only real golf, you know exactly which one I mean.
Why did you join Unwonted?
- The extremely talented and friendly colleagues. I had the chance to work with a few of them on a previous project, and I was instantly impressed. The rest of the team is just as amazing!
What’s the most unusual job you’ve ever had?
- It was not anything too out of the ordinary, but one summer when I was younger, I worked at a residential construction site. That gave me appreciation and respect for hard work that does not involve a keyboard.
What are you most looking forward to in 2025?
- Seeing only green circles in the pipeline dashboard :) Is that maybe the perfect New Year’s resolution?