Most analysts get the meeting invite after the decision is made. I get pulled in before. Eight years at Indeed and Talroo, sitting with Product, Sales, and Marketing. Running the math on the call that actually matters.
A back-of-the-envelope tour through Spotify's pro-rata pool, from looping a song for a month to taking home the money.
I drove a Honda Accord for years and felt taller vehicles in front of me made everything harder to see. I went looking for the data to see if my felt experience matched the crash record.
The brief, the rejected directions, the design decisions I made on the way to a v1 - and the one thing I'd tell another analyst to do before designing anything.
Python service on the Salesforce REST API. Auto-assignment, AI-summarized resolution notes, Slack notifications. Built in Cursor + Claude CLI in 2 weeks - what used to be a 6-month Apex/Flow build.
Rebuilt the SBS CRM Analytics dashboard for a new opportunity-measurement model. 400K opportunities tracked per quarter, daily-active by hundreds across SBS, GTM, and Support. One quarter from spec to launch.
Analyzed pre-launch feedback, then held back the largest client segment until a tailored MVP was ready. The conservative call protected 2M+ connections and 200K+ interviews driven in the year that followed.
Senior BI Analyst at Indeed, on Salesforce CRM Analytics. Day-to-day in SQL · Snowflake · Python · SFDC · Metabase. Pursuing an MS in Data Analytics at WGU. Training jiu-jitsu at Paragon BJJ. Reading more, shipping more, looking for what's next.
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