Designing modern data platforms

• Architected and built a central data ecosystem ingesting data from multiple source systems to support operations, reporting, and decision-making across programs in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
• Designed and implemented an enterprise data warehouse that connects organisational data end-to-end, automates reporting cycles, and reduced time-to-insight by 30%.
• Built automated analytical pipelines that removed manual report creation, accelerating dashboard readiness by 40% and standardising KPI definitions across teams.
• Deployed a natural-language self-serve analytics tool (dbt MCP + Claude), reducing analyst workload on common queries by 50% and expanding data access to non-technical stakeholders.
• Implemented automated data quality checks and monitoring, reducing pipeline failures by 25% and improving report reliability and accuracy.
• Leading organisation-wide data governance and security initiatives, defining standards, access policies, and best practices for data usage.

• Led a team of 3 technical data professionals (Data Engineers and BI Developer), driving the company’s data strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Acted as interim Data Product Manager for the data and analytics stack, owning roadmap prioritisation and aligning with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success stakeholders.
• Designed and maintained cloud ELT pipelines processing millions of rows of data from multiple product, marketing, and finance sources.
• Optimised query performance on Google BigQuery, reducing processing time and cloud costs by 30%.
• Built a machine learning recommendation engine to match clients with high-performing creators, improving key campaign KPIs by 20%.
• Developed churn prediction models for creators, enabling proactive outreach and reducing creator churn by 15%.
• Built data product services powering in-house product features (including generative AI components) and an automated analytics platform serving C-level, internal, and external stakeholders.
• Led SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance implementation for data systems.

• Led end-to-end delivery of data projects for multi-industry clients, acting as both technical lead and project manager from scoping and design through implementation and handover.
• Managed a team of data and software engineers, providing architectural guidance, sprint planning, and code reviews while ensuring projects met technical, timeline, and budget requirements.
• Designed and built enterprise data warehouses (cloud and on-premise) for clients in finance, health, manufacturing, education, and retail.
• Architected and implemented enterprise BI ecosystems using both proprietary and open-source tools.
• Built and automated ETL/ELT pipelines integrating millions of rows from diverse source systems into central analytical stores.
• Developed automated alerting systems (email, Microsoft Teams, in-app chat, WhatsApp) such as stockout alerts that reduced stockouts by 65% and cut ad-hoc analyst requests by 50%.
• Deployed demand prediction models to optimise inventory management (improving forecasting accuracy to ~85%) and customer–product clustering models that drove a 30% uplift in marketing performance.

Sysadmin & ICT Trainer at Learning Lions (Lodwar, Kenya) and Network Engineer & ICT Trainer at Tunapanda Institute (Nairobi, Kenya). Roles overlapped as the organisations are sister entities; focused on infrastructure, training, and early data/reporting work.