name: Sai Prudhvi Neelakantam
role: Senior Consultant, Data Engineering and AI
company: Evidi
location: Oslo, Norway
education: MSc Business Analytics — BI Norwegian Business School
certifications: 9 (Microsoft x2, Databricks x1, SAS x5, SQL x1)
languages: English, Telugu, Hindi (native) | Norwegian Bokmål
interests: Data Platforms, Azure AI, Conference Speaking, Coffee, Hiking, Lifting- Senior Consultant at Evidi, delivering data & AI solutions on Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Foundry, and Power BI
- Triple-certified by Microsoft and Databricks, with 9 professional certifications total
- International speaker at conferences across Europe and the US on Fabric, Azure AI, and Databricks
- Building scalable data platforms for clients like Kongsberg Digital, Anticimex, and NOMVEC
- 6+ years bridging data engineering with business strategy
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Azure Databricks Platform — Kongsberg Digital
Developing and maintaining an Azure Databricks-based data platform covering scalable data pipelines, governance (Unity Catalog), CI/CD, cost optimization, and cluster management.
Azure Databricks PySpark Delta Lake Unity Catalog Azure DevOps CI/CD Cost Optimization
Microsoft Fabric Platform — Anticimex
Building a Microsoft Fabric data platform with medallion architecture, PySpark/Python/SQL transformations, CRM integrations, and orchestrated pipelines.
Microsoft Fabric Dataflows Gen2 PySpark Medallion Architecture API Integration XML Processing
Microsoft Fabric Migration — NOMVEC
Led the migration and establishment of Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, including ETL/ELT pipelines, API integrations, and Power BI semantic models and reports.
Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses ETL/ELT Power BI Semantic Models API Integration
Drug Shortages Prediction — EFPIA
Analyzed pharmaceutical data and built ML models to predict drug shortages, leveraging Azure Databricks and Azure AI.
Azure Databricks Azure AI Azure OpenAI Machine Learning Python
Customer Segmentation — Telenor Norge
Segmented customer data using SAS Viya and Python, applying clustering and ML techniques to enhance business strategies.
SAS Viya Python Machine Learning Clustering Customer Analytics
2026 ─── Senior Consultant, Data Engineering and AI ─── Evidi ───────────── ▓▓▓░░
2024 ─── Consultant Data Engineer ────────────────────── Evidi / Amesto ─── ▓▓▓▓░
2022 ─── Power BI Data Analyst ───────────────────────── BI Norwegian ───── ▓▓░░░
2022 ─── SAS Intern ──────────────────────────────────── SAS Institute ─── ▓░░░░
2019 ─── Senior Business Development Manager ─────────── Ed-tech India ─── ▓▓▓░░
| Talk | Event | Year |
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| Medallion in Fabric: End-to-End Use Case | Microsoft Data Platform Meetup Groningen | soon |
| How to Deploy Advanced AI Models on Azure Cloud? | Kansas City SQL Server Users Group | 2025 |
| Near-Real-Time Object Recognition with Azure AI & Fabric | Data Community Day Austria | 2025 |
| Medallion in Fabric: End-to-End Use Case | Microsoft Fabric Cafe | 2024 |
| Real-Time Object Recognition with Azure AI & Medallion | Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference | 2024 |
| Near-Real-Time Object Recognition with Azure AI & Fabric | Data Toboggan — Cool Runnings | 2024 |
| UFO Unearthed: Databricks, AI and Power BI | Data Saturday Stockholm | 2024 |
| UFO Unearthed: Databricks, AI and Power BI | New Stars of Data #7 | 2024 |
| Degree | School | Year |
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| MSc in Business Analytics | BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo | 2023 |
| BTech (Hons.) in ECE | Lovely Professional University, India | 2020 |
