Kristyna Ferris didn’t come from a traditional tech background. She studied anthropology, stumbled into data through an admin job, taught herself Power BI on her lunch breaks, and eventually built a career that spans Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, Python, and cloud data architecture – plus a position on the Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVP) program along the way. Oh, and a $20,000 saving on the grad school she didn’t attend…
Kristyna’s story is less about having the right qualifications and more about making deliberate moves, learning with purpose, and showing up in the right communities. Whether you’re yet to start your first