Simon Madsen

Simon Madsen

Data & AI Consultant | Data Engineer | Cloud Solution Architect

I am a Data & AI Consultant with 6+ years of experience helping enterprises build data platforms that power AI, advanced analytics, and smarter decision-making.

I bridge business strategy and technical execution โ€” from Lakehouse architecture and ELT pipelines to AI-ready data models and self-service analytics. I have worked with both executives and engineering teams across many industries including energy, finance, retail, life science and infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Data Platform & Engineering

Microsoft Fabric ยท Databricks ยท PySpark ยท dbt ยท Delta Lake ยท Medallion Architecture ยท Dimensional Modelling

AI & MLOps

LLMs ยท Agentic Workflows ยท RAG ยท MLflow ยท Prompt Engineering ยท Vector Databases ยท Model Deployment

Semantics & Analytics

Power BI ยท DAX ยท Power Query ยท Semantic Models ยท Row-Level Security ยท MCP ยท Context Layer

DevOps & Governance

Azure DevOps ยท Git ยท CI/CD Pipelines ยท Data Governance ยท Python ยท SQL ยท APIs

Education

MSc Technology Entrepreneurship
Danish Technical University (DTU)
2022 โ€“ 2024
BSc Data Science
IT University of Copenhagen (ITU)
2018 โ€“ 2021

Achievements

Venture Cup Denmark 2023

Winner - "Best University Startup" for Anemo Robotics. Raised 1.5M DKK in first year.

DTU X-Tech Winner

Winner of DTU's entrepreneurship competition. Successfully transitioned from research to market-ready product.

Certifications

DP-600: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
DP-900: Azure Data Fundamentals

Professional Experience

Business Analytics Consultant ยท Twoday Data & AI
2024 โ€“ Present
  • Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Leading Fabric migration and Medallion architecture implementation with PySpark, DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and release management
  • Tivoli: Architected and delivered Fabric Lakehouse with end-to-end ELT pipelines and semantic modeling
  • Matas, By & Havn, Novo Life Fonden: Delivered customer care platform, data warehouse solutions, and financial reporting systems
  • Designed and implemented data governance frameworks and CI/CD release pipelines across enterprise data platforms
Microsoft Fabric Databricks dbt Delta Lake PySpark Power BI Azure DevOps Medallion Architecture Dimensional Modelling
Data Engineer ยท PureGym
2020 โ€“ 2024
  • Full-stack data platform ownership for Europe's 3rd largest fitness chain (2,000+ gyms, 2.5M+ members)
  • Designed and maintained Azure data warehouse with ETL pipelines integrating multiple operational source systems
  • Delivered 30+ Power BI reports serving 250+ unique monthly users across the organization
  • Owned semantic layer design, DAX measures, Row-Level Security, and commercial KPI frameworks
Azure Data Factory Azure SQL Server Power BI DAX Python SQL
Co-Founder & Data Scientist ยท Anemo Robotics
2023 โ€“ 2024

Built end-to-end ML pipelines and computer vision models for autonomous marine biodiversity monitoring โ€” from data ingestion and model training to Azure-based CI/CD deployment

Data Trainee ยท Vainu
2020

Applied custom-trained LLMs for automated sales-lead classification across hundreds of news outlets

Software Test Engineer ยท Capture One
2019 โ€“ 2020

Developed Python scripts for automated stress-testing to validate software releases and hardware integrations