Founding data engineer: DWH, ML and LLM systems from zero
Best for: solo founder · seed startup · scale-up (especially the ~50-person "our numbers don't match" stage).
Somewhere around fifty people, the numbers stop matching: sales, finance and product each have their own spreadsheet and their own truth. A data-platform review maps where data comes from, how it is transformed and where it breaks, then proposes a warehouse and pipeline design the team can actually run.
Best for: solo founder · seed startup · scale-up (especially the ~50-person "our numbers don't match" stage).
Selected cases from these experts’ profiles.
Data was scattered across multiple heterogeneous sources and there was no single place to report from.
One of our experts designed and implemented the company's data warehouse from scratch: ingestion pipelines from every source, BI-ready marts, Tableau reporting, plus hiring and onboarding data analysts.
One warehouse and one set of numbers the company could report from.
Reports are built by hand in spreadsheets, departments disagree on the same metric, and one person holds the whole analytics setup in their head.
Inventory the sources and existing reports, check metric definitions and pipeline reliability, and look at bus-factor and access risks.
A risk map, a target data architecture sized to the company, and a phased plan the in-house team can run.
Production analytics and ML pipelines pulled from many sources, and bad data was caught late.
One of our experts builds and supports the pipelines and automated data-quality monitoring, including LLM-based checks, and productionises data-science outputs for downstream use.
Data-quality issues are flagged automatically before they reach dashboards and models.
The same SaaS tracked millions of apps: installs, revenue estimates, rankings, SDK usage, store-page changes. Our expert designed pipelines that process millions of records daily, with queues and workers for ingestion, a columnar store for analytics and a search engine for lookups. This powers search, reports and customer-facing analytics.
— Invental · software studio · Montevideo, UY
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