Experience

Selected projects

Real analytics platforms our founder helped build over 15+ years — in-house at Amazon and Microsoft, and as a consultant for SaaS, telecom and fintech companies across North America. For each one: the team, the architecture, the stack, and what actually changed.

E-commerce marketplace · 400 employees

Oracle Data Warehouse to AWS Redshift

AbeBooks (an Amazon subsidiary)

Migrating a marketplace off Oracle, PL/SQL and Crystal Reports onto Redshift and Tableau.

Amazon Redshift Matillion ETL Tableau AWS EMR +4 more
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Consumer technology · internal data products

Product Analytics for a Voice Assistant

Amazon Alexa — Natural Language Understanding

Replacing manual CSV extracts with an automated Redshift and Tableau product analytics stack.

Amazon Redshift Redshift Spectrum Tableau Amazon SageMaker +1 more
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E-commerce · machine learning

Feature Engineering for Machine Learning

Amazon Retail

Building ML feature pipelines from a core data lake — with no warehouse, no data model and no dashboards.

Apache Spark Scala AWS EMR Amazon S3 +3 more
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Video games · player analytics

Delta Lake for Gaming Analytics

Microsoft Xbox — The Coalition

Moving a game studio off on-premise SQL Server and Hive onto an Azure Databricks lakehouse.

Azure Databricks Delta Lake Power BI Azure Data Factory +3 more
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B2B SaaS

Analytics for a Pre-IPO SaaS Product

A Canadian SaaS product company (pre-IPO)

An open-source data stack on AWS Athena, carrying finance reporting through an IPO.

AWS Athena dbt Meltano Looker +7 more
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B2B SaaS · publicly traded

Snowflake Analytics for a Public SaaS Company

A Gartner-leader SaaS product company

A Snowflake warehouse serving internal BI, self-service, customer-facing insights and ML features.

Snowflake dbt Apache Kafka Fivetran +6 more
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Telecommunications

Serverless Data Lake for a Telecom

One of the largest North American telecom companies

A config-driven AWS data lake where every job spins up its own EMR cluster and tears it down.

Amazon S3 AWS EMR Apache Spark AWS Athena +4 more
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Financial technology · trading

Open Source Analytics for a FinTech

One of the largest North American FinTech trading companies

A small data team running an open-source analytics stack at a trading company.

dbt Open source data stack
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