2021
Foundations
Master's — Åbo Akademi University
Governance of Digitalization — where the data-governance lens started.
Building in Public · Europe
Tong Nie
Data Engineer & Builder
By day, I orchestrate data. By night, I ship ideas. Same machine, different rules.
Ask my AI — answers liveFive years,
learn govern at scale.
01 · Experience
2023
Liftoff
Data Analyst · Neste
Into industry — first production pipelines and the dashboards that turned them into decisions.
2024
0 → 1
Analytics Engineer · PostNord
Built the enterprise Power BI platform from scratch — reporting latency under 3 hours, manual Excel gone.
2025
Optimize
Analytics Engineer · PostNord
Tuned it — streaming pipelines, performance tuning, and cost-efficiency at platform scale.
2026
Scale
Data Engineer · Basware
Standardized deployment across 1,000+ pipelines — shared libraries, DAB templates, CI/CD quality gates.
02 · Selected Work
Terraform-provisioned Databricks on AWS running Delta Live Tables — a self-building medallion under centralized governance.
Databricks DLTTerraformS3Unity Catalog View case studyAn Azure / Data Factory lakehouse — metadata-driven ingestion of Finland's grid API into a governed star schema.
ADFDatabricksDelta LakePower BI View case studyValidation + release pipeline for Power BI — automated quality gates on Microsoft Fabric.
Azure DevOpsMicrosoft FabricPower BI View case studyMaster's-thesis ML: predict a reservation's rating from booking data, with a purpose-built cost-aware metric.
Pythonscikit-learnXGBoostKeras View case study03 · Writing
The best code is the code you never wrote.
- 01 I Built My Chatbot's Knowledge Like a Lakehouse judgment −1 text dump
- 02 Validate Once, Then Trust the Types defensive −scattered checks
- 03 Counting Rows Without Paying for Them field notes −1 full scan
04 · Talk to me
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