Wells Fargo

Data Science Consultant, GenAI and LLMs

Flute and Feather

Interactive GenAI, ed-tech platform for young children to learn and have fun:

flutenfeather.com

Co-Founder & CTO

Data Dam

• Offer custom analytics, informatics and data science services with a core focus on Customer Experience AI. Present and past clients include:

- Diversigen
- Loop Genomics
- Black Onyx Management
- Oplytix
- Infinity Systems
- FEI

• Previously, led product and business development efforts of an AI-powered, question-answering platform using large language models (LLMs).
Identified and developed several use cases in biotech, pharmaceutical, finance and CPG industries.

Co-Founder

1865 Analytics

Sabanto

Brief stint exploring some projects related to analyzing bag files, image segmentation, and tractor route planning calculations.

Lead Data Scientist

Microsoft

Worked on NLP and CV projects to support Flip(grid): an ed-tech product empowering millions of learners across the globe.

Senior Applied Scientist Manager

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Analyzed gene variant and clinical data from Genomics England Database to inform rare disease strategy.

Bioinformatician

Near Wellness LLC

Started and sold a dropshipping e-commerce business. Learned everything about digital marketing, Shopify, and online sales—only to realize that making money in e-commerce is way harder than it looks. Didn’t make much, but walked away with a crash course in running a business.

Founder

Eaton

Built data science models and analytics tools to help optimize commercial operations.

Data Scientist, Business Analytics

Genentech

Worked in the RnD department to support bioinformatics and computational biology projects related to biomarker development.
Worked in Marketing Science department to support commercial analytics operations.

Bioinformatics/Data Science Roles

AI, engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure experience in biotech, manufacturing, software and banking industry. Always up for a new adventure. Hit me up at: 

ali[dot]faruqi[at]datadam[dot]io

Ali A. Faruqi

Leadway

● Architected and scaled ELT pipelines from SQL Server to Azure Data Lake using Databricks medallion architecture, successfully delivering an 80M+ record historical load and establishing automated incremental refreshes to guarantee continuous data freshness.
● Engineered and automated ingestion workflows in Azure Data Factory (ADF), reducing latency and enabling near real-time analytics for business-critical decision-making.
● Delivered production-grade, analytics-ready datasets in Microsoft Fabric, driving self-service BI adoption and empowering non-technical teams with on-demand access to curated data.
● Integrated and modeled customer interaction and call center datasets into scalable Power BI reporting layers, providing leadership with actionable insights into customer engagement and service performance.
● Collaborated with IT, operations, and business stakeholders to enhance the scalability, uptime, and reliability of enterprise data pipelines, ensuring high-availability analytics at scale.
● Created and optimized Power BI reports and dashboards tailored to stakeholder needs, enhancing data visibility across departments and accelerating decision-making cycles by providing intuitive, real-time insights.

Senior Data Analyst | Data Engineer

● Engineer and Build Service Analytics Dashboards to measure service impact metrics using Power BI
● Create and Analyze Customer Service Surveys to generate insights that improved the Organizations customer satisfaction score (CSAT) by 12%
● Reduce Call Wait time by 3% by utilizing customer Linguistics spread through local and international languages.
● Provide insight into customers’ activities, behaviors, and trends from onboarding through their entire lifecycle.
● Lead Data initiatives within the organization.
● Provide insight into customers’ activities, behaviors, and trends from onboarding through
their entire lifecycle.
● Improve the ratio of active customers on service channels by 5% by optimizing the Pension
transfer window data.
● Create and activate data connectors for SMTP integration of Alchemer which improved the
response rate of surveys by 28%.

Data Analyst | Data Engineer

Dreamworks Direct

Business Intelligence Team Lead

● Predict market trends and revenue generation of the Company based on historical data and advise Sales channels on best strategies to utilize.
● Write queries using SQL to extract data to be used in analytics and information science.
● Create recommendation systems for customer experience on the website.
● Use Linear progression models to improve product movement and Logistics time.

Business Intelligence Analyst

● Generated and visualized insights of company sales data and leveraged analysis to increase overall sales of the company by 20%.
● Increased customer retention by 31% by leveraging customer profile data to implement targeted marketing strategies.
● Analyzed the daily stock inventory to ascertain and visualize aged products per material center. This helped improve SKU turnout variance and reduce warehousing costs.
● Create daily revenue reports of the organization and report to management.
● Use Visualization tools like Google Data Studio and Tableau to show trends and visualize company data.

Data Analyst

Towards Data Science

● Developed and implemented an automated dynamic web-crawler that iterates across multiple web pages while tapping on Load more buttons.
● Calculated and visualized the trends of child mortality in Africa from 2000, especially neo-natal deaths due to malaria in Nigeria.
● Leveraged over a million words contained in book blurbs to calculate similarity metrics between Genres of whole books using Natural language Processing.
● Collaborate with data scientists on open-source projects and publish findings to a community of readers.

Data Science Technical Writer

ProjectPro

Write Freelance Data science articles.
Topics:
- Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)

Freelance Data Science Technical Writer

Omdena

● Extracted nighttime mask images from Google Earth Engine using VIIRS and DMBS image collections.
● Geospatial data science on electricity usage in the different states in Nigeria.
● Calculated zonal statistics of average radiance in all the local governments in the country.
● Build machine learning models to predict the best locations for solar panel and container installation based on temperature, light demand, and Population in the area.

Data Scientist

Hash Analytic

● Predicted employee attrition of an organization with an accuracy of 97% by implementing a gradient boosting classifier on staff data.
● Used K-Means clustering to find patterns in market behavior and advised small businesses on the best approach to take.
● Created pivot tables and heat maps with python and tableau to determine the gross salaries of different age brackets across geographical locations.

National Youth Service Corps

NYSC is a para-military program set up by the Nigerian government to involve Nigerian graduates in nation-building and the development of the country. I was posted to Bayelsa state where my Job included teaching students at Community secondary school, Otuoke subjects like Physics and Mathematics.

ACHIEVEMENTS
● Increased overall enthusiasm of students in Community, Secondary, School, Bayelsa state.
● Recorded a 38% increase in pass grades in physics between terms 2 and 3.
● Lead the students through physics practicals to visualize and understand the taught concepts in the classrooms.
● Recorded an 88% pass in Mathematics at the end of the teaching session.

Secondary School Teacher

Ibom Power Generation Company

Power Generation Engineer

I’m a Senior Data Analyst & Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience transforming raw data into measurable business impact through scalable data pipelines, automation, and self-service BI. 

I specialize in building end-to-end pipelines, modeling data with dbt, and delivering actionable insights through Power BI and other visualization platforms. My experience spans modern data platforms, including Azure, Databricks, dbt, and Microsoft Fabric, where I’ve designed and optimized solutions that improve decision-making, customer experience, and operational performance. 

Alongside analytics, I apply engineering best practices to transform raw data into clean, tested, and production-ready datasets. I work hands-on with dbt, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, GCP, Databricks, and Docker, building reliable pipelines and modern data stacks. 

My approach bridges business and engineering, ensuring data is not only insightful but also reproducible, scalable, and accessible. 

I’m open to opportunities in analytics engineering, data engineering, or senior analytics, where I can bring end-to-end expertise to build impactful, data-driven systems. 

Let’s connect!

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